{"id":87751,"date":"2026-04-15T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87751"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:37:43","slug":"legal-advisers-help-migrants-pose-as-gay-to-get-asylum-undercover-bbc-investigation-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/15\/legal-advisers-help-migrants-pose-as-gay-to-get-asylum-undercover-bbc-investigation-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/4bf2\/live\/205e7fa0-3827-11f1-879d-1b2f5c3919b8.jpg\" alt=\"Split pic. On the left is an online invitation for an Eid Milan Party. It has cartoon depictions of young men and women in front of a mosque, with fireworks in the background. The invite reads: connect &amp; celebrate Eid in a safe, inclusive space for LGBT+ asylum seekers. On the right is a photo of the event with men sitting down in a community hall, their faces blurred. \" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A shadow industry of law firms and advisers is charging thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay in order to stay in the UK, the BBC has found. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c937wldkkw8o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A shadow industry of law firms and advisers is charging thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay in order&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lgbtq.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87752,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87751\/revisions\/87752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}