Instructors at teaching centers for prospective British citizens are offering earphone candidates to cheat the Life in the UK citizenship test, according to reports.
The Life in the UK test is a mandatory part of the citizenship process and covers topics ranging from the basics of British life to the technicalities of TV licence.
Approximately 80% of applicants pass the threshold of at least 18 correct answers to the 24-question test, which can be taken in writing or on audio, at the applicant’s choice.
A BBC researcher posing as a citizenship applicant at an east London training academy has been offered a two-way earpiece to cheat on the exam.
Instructor Masoud Abul Raza was recorded telling the undercover reporter that “everything would be arranged” to give them the correct answers.
“You have to spend almost £2,000. That’s the business, it’s completely hidden. But you are getting a result,” she said.
The researcher then conducted the test using the headset, which was connected via bluetooth to a mobile phone used to transmit the responses. He received a certificate of passage, a crucial step in obtaining a British passport.
Despite being caught on camera, Abul Raza denied cheating and insisted that he only organizes legitimate training sessions.
Another east London instructor told the reporter that he has also set up cheats at test centers in Birmingham and Manchester, stating: “They never catch anybody.”
The footage, which is broadcast on BBC One’s show tonight at 7:30pm, claims that some EU citizens are “paying criminals to cheat the Life in the UK test, as anxiety grows over subsequent rights to citizenship. -Brexit».
A woman who admitted to cheating on her exam says she was motivated by a panic of being deported from the UK after Brexit.
Similar cases have been reported since at least 2008, when two men were jailed for using hidden cameras and earphones to help candidates cheat on a Wimbledon citizenship test, in what The Daily Telegraph described as “a scene from a James Bond movie.
In 2014, “immigrants were found to be driving hundreds of kilometers to a specific testing centre,” says the Daily Mail. “An official report found that staff ‘colluded with applicants to commit fraud’”.
The Home Office, which outsources the administration of the tests to 36 centers across the UK, said it took the fraud “extremely seriously”.
2023-07-07 00:52:41
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