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Doctor helps migrants in for £100
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09.12.05 (3 years ago)
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| THE Royal Brompton hospital in southwest London employs a doctor who supplements his National Health Service income by running a scheme that can help overseas medics enter Britain illegally. Last week, Dr Raj Rajagopal, a registrar cardiologist, met an undercover Sunday Times journalist outside the hospital’s front entrance and agreed to help “Iqbal”, his fictitious Bangladeshi brother, enter this country for a fee of £100. The doctor agreed to write a letter of sponsorship on the spot that would help Iqbal obtain a UK visitor’s visa from Bangladesh. Rajagopal is a director of DoctorstoUK |
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09.12.05 (3 years ago)
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| Rajagopal, who left India for the UK five years ago, demanded - and received - a measly £ 100 to sell a fake letter sponsoring an undercover reporter posing as the brother of a Bangladeshi doctor. The 'brother', bearing the moniker Iqbal, wanted to enter the UK and needed a sponsorship letter confirming he wanted to join an unregulated course that enables non-EU medics to pass British exams qualifying them to work for Britain's National Health Service (NHS). |
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09.12.05 (3 years ago)
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| He later added: "He doesn’t have to be a doctor, he can do anything he wants. If you have a chauffeur business or something he can just work with you, but that’ll be illegal. But people do that, yes. It’s a way to survive." Such letters are vital in convincing the UK foreign office to grant visitor visas in the belief that the students have enrolled on full-time study courses in Britain. Many students are able to leave the courses early and often disappear without trace. |
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NHS doctors take cash for sponsorship letter
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09.12.05 (3 years ago)
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| One company involved in training foreign doctors is so concerned at the scale of the illegal immigration that it has lodged a formal complaint with the police, the Home Office and the Revenue and Customs, the report said. |
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Doctors in ‘cash for visas’ scam
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09.12.05 (3 years ago)
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| The doctors are selling sponsorship letters for up to £100 each, a Sunday Times investigation has found. The letters are vital in convincing the Foreign Office to grant visitor visas in the belief that the students have enrolled on full-time study courses in Britain. In fact many students are able to leave the courses early. They often disappear without trace to join the growing pool of illegal immigrants in Britain. |
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09.12.05 (3 years ago)
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Interesting piece, especially this part.
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| Rajagopal said he could also offer Iqbal a job teaching other PLAB
students at his company for £20 a session. “But he can do this even though he’s on a visitor’s visa, unofficially?” asked our reporter. “Yeah,” replied Rajagopal. |
Most of the PLAB
institutes have been doing this for a long time.
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09.13.05 (3 years ago)
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Shame on those so called EASTHAM and other Illegal institutes.
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