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joebloggs

7th June 2011, 18:27

Dedworth

7th June 2011, 19:29

You could have had a same day service Joe if these vermin were still in operation :D

A couple from south-east London have admitted running a factory that made fake passports and identity documents.

Abiola Olatunji-Orelope, aged 34, was arrested with his 28-year-old wife Folashade after UK Border Agency officers raided their home in Claxton Path, Lewisham on 9 September 2010.

Officers uncovered 50 counterfeit passports, in various stages of construction, purporting to be Ghanaian, Nigerian, Irish, Czech and even British issue.

They also seized 20 counterfeit German, Dutch and French identity cards, around 40 fake Home Office and other national government rubber visa stamps and ink pads, cutting boards, razor blades, paint thinners, glue, laminates, forged visas and around 30 blank birth and marriage certificates.

They even found a book containing a list of orders from clients and passport-sized photos ready to be used in the forgeries.

Abiola Olatunji-Orelope pleaded guilty to fraud, deception and possessing false identity documents.

On Monday 23 May at Croydon Crown Court he was sentenced to 3 years in prison. His wife admitted possessing false identity documents and was given a 1-year suspended sentence plus 140 hours' community service.

Alex Ttaris, from the UK Border Agency's criminal and financial investigation team, said:

'This was a sophisticated criminal operation, and I have no doubt that these fake documents would have been used to flout immigration rules, gain employment, open bank accounts and obtain other goods and services by deception.'

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2011/may/34Fake-ID-Factory-Lewisham

:cwm23:Note the wife was given a slapped wrist suspended sentence. Note their indigenous names

Terpe

8th June 2011, 11:44

That's nice news JB.

Well done to Mrs JB :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Did they ask some very strange questions?

When my wife had a passport interview they kept asking about her grandparents. Where were they born, where did they marry, how many children etc etc. :doh

My wife was just honest and said she had no idea. Her last surviving grandmother died in 2000.
Pointless interview we felt.

Interview was 4:00pm on the Wednesday
Passport arrived in the post same week on the Friday morning 08:30am

Surely the passports must already be avialable prior to the interview.

Arthur Little

8th June 2011, 11:54

well I thought we would apply for a British passport for the misses, filled in the forms, went for an ID interview last Saturday, and :yikes: her British passport arrived this morning,,, now if they can print and deliver a passport in a few days :xxgrinning--00xx3:why can't they process most visa's in a few days :doh..

:gp:, Joe :rolleyes: ... presumably it's all down to the degree of thoroughness with which background checks are made where visa applications are concerned. Anyway, glad your missus was able to obtain her British Passport so quickly. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

gift

9th June 2011, 09:24

wow,i wish my sons british passport will come already.we've applied for his passport may 12 and its june 9 now but still no news. anyone knows how to track it online?they said to wait for 6 weeks.

Terpe

9th June 2011, 10:03

wow,i wish my sons british passport will come already.we've applied for his passport may 12 and its june 9 now but still no news. anyone knows how to track it online?they said to wait for 6 weeks.

Better to wait until around June 23rd :xxgrinning--00xx3:

gift

9th June 2011, 10:10

Better to wait until around June 23rd :xxgrinning--00xx3:

i have no choice terpe but to wait, but im praying it will come sooner than later.:)

joebloggs

9th June 2011, 13:21

yes terpe they did, they asked the same. i take it they have access to the information which my misses filled in for her naturalisation cert, as they asked her when she became a birtish citizen, but its that long ago she couldn't remember the date :doh

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