For the last year, the programme has been filming undercover, following a network of agents helping people obtain student visa extensions through fraud. Each year, around 100,000 non-EU students get their visas to stay in the UK extended. The programme sent non-EU students - who were already in the UK legally - undercover. They posed as bogus students with poor English, who wanted to remain in the
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