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Immigration officers have warned their bosses that the new ways of working are not working.
According to the article which can be seen in full on the BBC website the system is now that having registered for a course in this country with offices abroad and had their status verified by foreign nationals who themselves are located overseas the foreign ‘student’ can them enter this country on entirely legal paperwork. Even the cases that the immigration officers do spot they feel that their hands are tied because the paperwork is already complete and the backlog seems to be rather large.
Many of these students are entirely legitimate, but he said he and his colleagues are almost powerless to challenge those whom they suspect are not.
"If someone presents a case like that to a chief immigration officer, they take a look at the size and the number of people in the hall, and they turn around and say, 'Look, because of the pressure of work, they've got a visa, get them into the country'.
"It would take two officers off the desk for hours just to present a case to send them to a detention centre."
And he believes this means people who have been denied entry to the UK on other grounds are able to enter the UK on bogus student visas.
"We have an awful lot of students who have been refused five, six, even up to nine visas to come here to this country, whether it be for working holidays or student applications," he said. "And they're now coming here."
With regards to the colleges themselves the immigration officials have some harsh words also.
"It beggars belief that these places can be graded the way they are, when we know for a fact that we've proved and got signatures from the passengers that they paid for their certificates," he said.
The immigration officer told BBC Radio 5 live about a recent case of an Indian woman in her 50s who presented herself as a student enrolling on an advanced course, despite the fact that she could barely speak English.
"She was going to do an ACCA accounting course, of which when asked in Hindi what ACCA meant, she didn't have a clue," he said.
"She wasn't even able to say in her own language what the course was going to entail."
It would seem that the immigration officials concerned are not the only ones holding these views.
These concerns are echoed on an internal UK Border Agency online message board, seen by the BBC.
One officer wrote: "I can no longer feel proud of my role, given that I am forced on a daily basis to allow entry to passengers who clearly hold no ability or intention to follow any course of study in the United Kingdom".
Another commented: "The introduction of the appallingly thought-out points-based system for students has, in one fell swoop, failed the UK taxpayer who expects us to do a good job in tackling illegal immigration."
Until the British people elect a government with a clear mandate to protect our borders the dissolution of the British history and traditions into centre of multicultural misery will continue.
Make no mistake. In the long term this multicultural society serves no-one well.
