British men are being offered £10,000 to be fake fathers of migrant mothers’ babies in a citizenship scam, which is feared to span thousands of cases across the UK. The scam involves fraudsters using Facebook and other websites to offer to add their name to a birth certificate, meaning a child can obtain British citizenship and the real mother can stay. Under Home Office rules, a parent can apply for a family visa if their child is living in the UK and already a British citizen. The parent must have either sole parental responsibility or shared responsibility, but the child’s other parent or carer must be a British citizen. Last year 4,860 family visas were granted to “other dependents” — which includes those applying to stay in the UK as parents of British children — however the Home Office does not publish data on visas granted for non-UK parents.

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