Hundreds of illegal migrants have snuck back into the UK after they were handed a £3000 payment of taxpayer cash to leave the country.=
The individuals were following advice shared on social media on how to game the Home Office’s Assisted Voluntary Return Scheme.
Through the programme, migrants are offered one-off payments and plane tickets as an incentive to leave the UK voluntarily.
However, newly emerged evidence has revealed systematic abuse of the system with brazen tutorials demonstrating how to use the money to return to the UK via Ireland.
Alongside the tutorial posts are mocking commentaries of the inept British state, with one writing: “There are jokers who come back as soon as they set foot in Brazil… hahaha!”
Multiple cases of immediate returns have been documented, including delivery riders and cleaners resuming illegal employment after pocketing taxpayer funds.
Sources suggest up to half of recipients rejoin Britain’s underground economy within months.
Online guides circulate amongst Brazilian migrant communities, outlining precise routes to circumvent border controls after claiming voluntary return payments.
Hundreds of migrants have returned to the UK after previously being paid £3000 to leave
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Instructions recommend acquiring new passports upon arrival in Brazil to eliminate UK entry stamps.
The preferred route involves flying to European Union countries before travelling to Dublin. From Ireland’s capital, individuals take buses to Belfast, then onwards to Glasgow and finally to London.
Brazilian nationals filming in London’s Soho district confirmed this pathway remains popular amongst those previously removed.
In their posts, they were seen to mock British officials as “too trusting” whilst sharing successful re-entry stories.
The scheme shared on social media exploits the Home Office’s Assisted Voluntary Return programme
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On migrant documented his journey on social media, describing spending three hours with Dublin immigration officials who accused him of lying.
“They called me a liar and said I wouldn’t be allowed in, but I told them I wasn’t going back to London, only visiting Ireland. They gave me a five-day visa and let me in. God knows why, haha. But my real goal was to get to London,” he stated.
He also posted photographs showing his Irish visa and subsequent travel from Limerick to Shannon Airport, where he flew to London, encountering “no immigration at all”.
A Brazilian family of four was also discovered to have received £12,000 to rebuild their home in the South American country, yet the father returned to the UK within six months to work illegally as a delivery driver
Another couple utilised their payment to travel home for childbirth before the mother resumed illegal cleaning work in Britain, according to the Mail on Sunday.
Government data shows 9,227 individuals departed under assisted voluntary returns during the year ending June, representing more than double the figure recorded under the previous Conservative administration. Brazilian nationals comprised 4,810 of these departures.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp condemned the situation, stating: “This is yet another example of this weak and incompetent Labour government losing control of our borders at a time when British taxpayers are struggling to make ends meet. This pathetic Government is handing out money like confetti and immigrants are playing them for fools.”
“The Government has to clamp down on this abuse, either by getting the Irish government to conduct biometric checks at the Irish border or introducing entry checks for people coming from Ireland to the UK mainland,” he said.
