Buying a British Dad

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

You can buy almost everything on social media – how about a British dad for your child? A year long BBC investigation has uncovered a brazen illegal immigration scam in which pregnant migrant women who are in the UK without a visa are paying British men thousands of pounds to pose as fathers to their children. The women gain British citizenship for their child, which means they may be able to get the right to remain themselves. The fake fathers receive hefty sums of money. And a network of criminal 'fixers' and translators are also cashing in.

Divya Talwar reports.

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:39.0	Hello, this is Seriously, from BBC Radio Radio 4 and I'm Vanessa Kasule.
0:46.0	This podcast finds the world's best audio documentaries and puts them all in one place.
0:52.0	Here's the most interesting thing you'll hear all week.
0:55.0	I think that's her. I think that's the woman. Yeah, she just sat down with our undercover researcher.
1:06.9	She's come on her own.
1:08.9	It would be 10,000 for the that.
1:14.0	This woman is boasting about running an elaborate immigration scam.
1:21.0	And for me, clients... immigration scam. Way down.
1:23.0	And for me, clients in London normally pay me $500 or a thousand pounds.
1:28.0	I would think that it would be prevalent amongst all communities and someone from each
1:34.5	community would have at least an inkling about it or attempted to do this or have
1:38.7	done it successfully. We go undercover to expose those behind this illegal immigration racket.
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