Sexy Visas

People are using other methods to get VISAs and not your usual run-of-the-mill forging of documents.

The Guardian makes a comprehensive report on the British investigation into their immigration officers' 'visa-for-sex' scams, a follow-up on The Sun's extremely short report on the same incident (or maybe, its just the online version that's short). It looks into the women's consent to sleep with officials in order to get a Visa, much to the distress of their families and partners. The paper published Jeffery's article yesterday revealing the scandal, and a follow-up today with Gillian's report. Oddly enough, unlike the Guardian, The Sun makes no follow-up article. The BBC website also gives a similar report, much on the same informative tone as The Guardian and much more comprehensive with all perspectives such as the immigration officer who exposed the issue and the Home Office Minister.

The SMH has picked up on this, stating that 'brazilian girls would be given permission to stay in the country longer than their boyfriends for no valid immigration reason'.

Its interesting to note the The Sun news website is totally, utterly sexed up (thanks to Alice for bringing this issue to light - I can't comment on your blog for some reason! YarGH). It features regular articles that are easily related to sex, as well as numerous dating advertisements accompanied by scantily clad women, so much so that I think it's starting to border on soft-porn. You'd think that an article of this related issue would have a little more priority, or at least a slightly more informative report. Interestingly, also - a search of 'visa AND sex' on the Australian News Limited site in regards to this scandalous incident failed to bring up any results. But of course, much like The Sun, being a tabloid newspaper, one tends to focus more on the personal issues rather than immigration affairs. Tsk tsk, poor reporting..