13-12-2016, 22:43
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#1880
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Re: Unstoppable migration?
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Nine people have been convicted of running an immigration fraud linked to English tests for foreign students.
Hundreds of non-EU citizens are said to have got student visas after paying fake "sitters" to take language exams on their behalf.
Four people were found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of immigration law offences. A fifth pleaded guilty and four others were convicted earlier.
The trials resulted directly from a BBC Panorama investigation.
To qualify for a visa in the UK, overseas students must demonstrate a certain level of the English language.
The then-government-accredited Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) examines reading, listening, grammar and vocabulary.
It involves a written and oral section and a separate multiple-choice question paper.
Talal Choudhury, Shaheen Ahmed
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Total Care directors Talal Choudhury and Shaheen Ahmed were seen in the footage
However, in 2014 Panorama revealed that the TOEIC exams at two test centres were being taken on behalf of foreign visa applicants in exchange for cash.
The programme secretly filmed fake "sitters" at Eden College International (ECI) in east London and at the Universal Training Centre in Watford.
Undercover footage in which entire rooms of registered candidates stepped aside so that exams could be taken by people who spoke better English was shown at the trials.
The plotters were equally brazen when it came to a multiple-choice paper - the secret filming showed an invigilator simply reading out the answers for candidates to copy.
The oral and written test answers were recorded on computers. However, ETS, the US company that set and marked the exam, failed to detect that the same voices appeared numerous times under different names.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38225712
God only knows where we'd be if we didn't have robust immigration controls eh?
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