By Robert the Brucie

Great Britain is suffering different methods of immigration abuse and one such method has been sham weddings, where the fake partner is paid to marry the person desiring British citizenship.

Once married they part and the abuse is complete allowing the illegal immigrant to stay in Britain due to marrying a Brit of EU national in our country.

Now it appears that illegal immigrants are using homosexual/lesbian marriage ceremonies as another method to gain a British passport.

Same-sex marriages were made legal in March this year but within weeks of the legislation coming into effect, criminal gangs were touting sham gay weddings to those wanting to dodge immigration controls. 

An undercover reporter exposed the fraud and discovered one gang that organises sham gay marriages for £10,000. 

He posed as an illegal immigrant urgently seeking a sham marriage to stay in the UK, while another posed as an uncle.

Peter and Ricardo, the gang's leaders, boasted to the undercover reporters they had "fixed" weddings "lots of times".

They offered two potential fake Romanian brides to the reporter, both of whom explicitly stated they were not lesbians but were willing to pretend to be gay and marry anyone for cash. 

One of the girls, Alexandra, said she had organised six previous sham weddings and knew how to deceive immigration officers. 

She said: "We have to declare we live together… That's not gonna happen but that's what we have to declare." 

She said she could also arrange a "romantic" photo shoot of the undercover reporter and herself, designed to persuade the authorities that they were in a genuine relationship and said "we gonna like, hold hands, hold each other… we have to."

The number of reported sham weddings has trebled in recent years, according to the Home Office. 

Mark Rimmer, head of Registration and Nationality Services at Brent Council, said: "Here in Brent, the Home Office stops marriages on a weekly basis. 

"In many boroughs in London the thought is that up to 20 to 30% of marriages are actually for the avoidance of immigration control." 

But these statistics only account for straight fake weddings.

The authorities have yet to get to grips with sham gay weddings.

Mr Rimmer said: "I think it is probably more difficult to spot the signs if you have a same sex couple whether they be male or female." 

The gang investigated claimed that breaking the law by fixing sham gay marriages was easy. 

Ricardo said he had never had any problems with the police or immigration officers. 

He said: "You say 'I am gay'. No more questions for you. Easy for gay."

Minister for Immigration and Security, James Brokenshire, said what had been uncovered was disturbing and he had ordered his enforcement teams to launch an investigation into sham gay weddings as a result.

He said: "Registrars will be given new powers later this year to better identify all fraudulent marriages." 

It seems that there is no end to the lengths that illegal immigrants will go to obtain the right to stay in our country. A country that has a massive housing shortage caused by millions of immigrants and a health service plus school system creaking at the seams under the weight of the population explosion.

Simply, we believe that Britain must leave the EU to thus help secure our borders and drive out these Romanian criminals and organised gangs. 

Opening up free movement to the poorest in Eastern Europe is crippling Western European nations, with untold millions being paid out in welfare cheques, housing benefit and rising costs through usage of the health service and schools.

It is clear that the sham marriage crime in Britain is big money and it will not reduce until we end our EU membership.

If Mr Cameron is re-elected in May 2015, we must keep the pressure on him to hold that promised In or Out EU vote by the British people.

We cannot allow him the same fob of which he and his party are doing now concerning promised further Scottish devolution powers which now looks like pie in the sky.