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33 Years Prison for Thames College London Fraudsters

Five people operating a bogus college and corrupt immigration advice firm were sentenced to 33 and a half years total detention, having been found guilty for conspiring to assist unlawful immigration and money-laundering offences.


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High Profile Clampdown on Sham Weddings and Bogus Colleges, plus Radical Changes to the UKBA

Damien Green, the UK Immigration minister has drawn the battle lines against those who think the UK is soft touch. He said the Government was determined to send a clear message to those with no right to come to the UK.


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Threat from bogus Students low despite what the Headlines Suggest

Recent research by a well respect company – Ernst & Young – shows that fears of bogus students – often caused by outrageous headlines – are unfounded and the risk of fraudulent international students is in fact low.


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Parliamentary Question – Entry Clearances for Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many entry visas for students attending colleges which were subsequently closed on the intervention of the UK Border Agency were issued in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008; and how many such visas were issued between 1 January and 31 October 2009.


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Bogus Colleges Exposed: Gang Jailed

Bogus Colleges Gang ArrestedA gang of four people who were caught running bogus colleges and immigration service firms were jailed for 25 years. The bogus colleges scam was reported to have earned the criminal gang millions of pounds, the UK Border Agency (UKBA) reported.


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