Non Financial Companies – Case Study 1
A female Ivory Coast national entered the UK on a six month Visitors Visa - supposedly to visit her
sister but she had no intention of leaving once the visa expired and instead obtained a counterfeit
French Passport to enable her to live and work in the UK. Unfortunately the employment agency she used hadn’t spotted her forged French passport and it was successful in finding her employment with a
pharmaceutical company.  Over the next two years the illegal immigrant was promoted several times
but unfortunately for her the final promotion required her to attend a conference in the USA and that
was her downfall.  Her French passport had to be submitted to the US Embassy to obtain a ‘business
visa’ for the conference, and that was how her illegal status was discovered. The US Embassy notified
the police who arrested her and the UK Border Agency deported her back to the Ivory Coast. Her real
passport details were recorded to prevent her from ever applying for a UK visa again.