A legal adviser was secretly filmed telling an undercover reporter posing as a migrant to pretend to be gay so he could claim asylum in Britain.
An investigation uncovered a shady network of asylum experts charging up to £7,000 to coach migrants whose visas are running out on how to pose as gay.
They are supplying clients with cover stories and telling them how to fabricate evidence, including supporting letters, photos from LGBT nightclubs and medical reports.
The migrants then file for asylum because they would face lethal persecution if they returned to Bangladesh or Pakistan, where homosexuality is prohibited.
Overall asylum claims topped 100,000 in 2025, of which 35 per cent were made by people whose student, work or tourist visas had expired – far outstripping small boat arrivals.
According to an inquiry, legal advisors are routinely targeting the system in an effort to charge fees for assisting illegal migrants in remaining in the nation.
Undercover BBC News reporters posed as students facing visa expiry and approached several legal advisors.
At Law & Justice Solicitors in East London, paralegal Mazedul Hasan Shakil passed a reporter’s details to Tanisa Khan, an adviser to Worcester LGBT, which describes itself as a support group for gay and lesbian asylum seekers.
Ms Khan was secretly filmed telling the journalist he needed to ‘claim to be an LGBT person’. When he said ‘but I’m not’, she replied by saying, ‘that’s it, you’re not’.
She offered a £2,500 package including club photos, tickets, letters claiming sexual relationships and an endorsement from Worcester LGBT.
The adviser bragged of her success rate and suggested the ‘client’s’ imaginary wife could also apply for asylum by claiming to be a lesbian.
At a Worcester LGBT event in Beckton, east London, attended by more than 175 men from across the UK, several people openly confessed to undercover reporters that practically none were gay.
One said: ‘Nobody is gay here. Not even 0.01% are gay.’
The group’s website claims it supports only genuine LGBT asylum seekers and is formally recognised by the Home Office.
At Connaught Law in London, senior adviser Aqeel Abbasi quoted £7,000 for the service and assured the reporter the risk of refusal was ‘very low’.
He told the reporter to have his photo taken in gay clubs and find someone to pose as a fake male partner.
Ana Gonzalez, an immigration lawyer with 30 years’ experience, said the likes of Ms Khan were ‘clearly breaking the law’.
It seems that human rights lawyers are the worst, giving perpetrators illegal ideas and raking in millions for legal aid. Starmer himself is a multi-millionaire, and yet nothing will happen to these lawyers, and our government knows what goes on, and so does the average person on the streets. We need to come down extremely hard on those providing this fraudulent service.
Of course, all of this could be stopped – Labour, I’m looking at you! Because this is the oldest trick in the book, and no one is ever questioned by the Home Office.
These HR lawyers and the like are systematically destroying this country because their greed blinkers the damage they are doing, and it’s quite frankly appalling, but they are lucky because they don’t have to live with the consequences, unlike the rest of us. We are not only paying for it, but we are also having to put up with it.
Supposedly, the Home Office lie through their teeth all the time because if they were doing their jobs properly, then we wouldn’t have all these corrupt lawyers, and they wouldn’t be doing such amazing business.
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