There are about 35,000 overseas students whom the Home Office accused of cheating in a government-approved English language test they were required to take as part of the process of applying for a renewal of their student visas. The allegations triggered a wave of dawn raids on student flats around the country.
About 2,500 students were subject to an enforced removal from the UK and another 7,500 left the country voluntarily after being warned that they faced arrest, detention and forced removal if they stayed. Thousands of those accused have spent years trying to prove their innocence.
So the UK is short on workers and drives out immigrants who are studying to become a valuable part of the workforce?
Racists are really the big brains, aren’t they?
But while ruining the economy, you can make a lot of money by shorting the stocks.
I don’t doubt the large scale cheating but breaking down someone’s door and hauling them off sounds pretty insane.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The morning after Sajjad Sohag returned from his honeymoon, he and his wife were woken by the sound of immigration enforcement officers breaking down the front door of the building in London where they were renting a studio flat.
The background to the English language test scandal is complex, which may go some way towards explaining why this issue has not attracted sustained political attention, unlike comparable miscarriages of justice.
He believes the Home Office seized on the allegations as a convenient way to bolster its drive to cut net migration numbers.
He was only released when his wife, a student from Pakistan, managed to find money to pay for a solicitor to help challenge the accusation.
Initially no evidence was provided to the students in support of the allegation that they had cheated, and those accused were told that they had no right of appeal in the UK.
He is one of 23 former students currently represented by Bindmans law firm in a group action seeking compensation, but he says financial reparation can never make amends for the damage to his life.
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