An undercover probe finds agents brokering deals between migrant women and men with UK passports.
British men are taking payments of thousands of pounds to pose as fathers for migrant women, a BBC investigation has found.
He described the process as "very easy" and said he "would do everything" to get the child a UK passport. When Thai was later confronted about his involvement in the racket he denied any wrongdoing and said he "didn't know anything about it".Another agent, calling herself Thi Kim, claimed she had helped thousands of pregnant migrant women.
If a migrant woman is in the UK illegally and gives birth to a child fathered by a British citizen or a man with indefinite leave to remain, the baby is automatically British by birth. However, last year 4,860 family visas were granted to "other dependents" - a category which includes those applying to stay in the UK as parents of British children.The Home Office has told the BBC that it has measures in place to prevent and detect immigration fraud using false birth certificates.
Newsnight's investigation found that the illegal practice is advertised widely on some Vietnamese Facebook groups for job-seekers.We found dozens of posts from accounts boasting about their credentials as suitable fake fathers as well as women looking for British men to pose as fathers. Watch the full investigation on BBC iPlayer and on BBC World News and BBC News Channel on Saturday 20 May at 10:30.She said: "He was 30 years older than me. I heard he'd done it before with another woman."
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