Illegal migrants get £3,000 'bribes' to return home... then boast how easy it is to sneak back in

Daily Mail ^ | 18:55 EDT, 1 November 2025 | Updated: 22:00 EDT, 1 November 2025 | LYDIA VELJANOVSKI

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Hundreds of illegal migrants are secretly sneaking back to the UK just weeks after being given £3,000 in British taxpayers' cash as a bribe to return home, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Our investigation has discovered the migrants are cynically gaming the Home Office's 'Assisted Voluntary Return Scheme' where they are each given a one-off payment and a plane ticket home.

Fixers brazenly offer step-by-step advice on social media detailing how to pocket the money, cheat the system and get back to Britain, openly scorning the UK Government as 'too trusting'.

The MoS investigation shows Brazilians to the forefront of the scam. One man says: 'There are jokers who come back as soon as they set foot in Brazil… hahaha!'

This newspaper discovered that:

• Social media posts advise illegal migrants to get a new passport when they have returned to Brazil with their cash, fly to the EU and make their way to Ireland, and then back to Britain via Belfast; 

• One man bragged about how he easily fooled Irish immigration authorities into giving him a five-day tourist visa – and posted photos about how easy it was to get from there back to the UK;

• A Brazilian family of four were awarded £12,000 under the scheme to rebuild their house in Brazil, and six months later the father sneaked back into the UK to work illegally as a delivery rider;

• One couple used the money to return to Brazil to have their baby, and then slipped back into the UK so the mother could return to work illegally as a cleaner.

Micael Fernandes (pictured) shared on TikTok how he had entered through Dublin and spent three hours in immigration where he lied to officials about 'only visiting' rather than returning to London

On his public Instagram page, Micael...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
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[FlingWingFlyer]

Once they take the money, you need to put a Wanted Dead or Alive bounty on their asses if they do sneak back in.

[556x45]

This is painful to watch…

[ealgeone]

The continual subsidy of bad behavior will continue to result in bad behavior.

[butlerweave]

Remove a finger before they get the £3,000

[MarlonRando]

they could brand them with a mark, either on their forehead or right hand

[j.havenfarm]

Not even that. Take a dna sample and severely criminalize returning within ten years. Doubt they’ll do it, though

[Fungi]

Stop feeding and housing them, better yet, don’t let them in.The Brits are this stupid——yes.

[Brian Griffin]

From my invader return plan:

Return home funds would be gradually payable monthly back home on three-business-day periods of the month. The periods would be randomly selected and unclaimed funds would be confiscated to motivate the alien to remain home.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

“Stop feeding and housing them, better yet, don’t let them in.The Brits are this stupid——yes.”

This could never happen in the U.S.

/s

[Brian Griffin]

That plane is going to Brazil. You may board it.

Otherwise, a boat will take you and a fishing rod to a remote Scottish island.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Ha ha, government by wankers.
Cut off all aid and kick them out of Five Eyes.
They can no longer be trusted.

[Zathras]

This is my shocked face.....

[Leaning Right]

The British government: idiots
The illegal immigrants: clever criminals

In a contest between idiots and clever criminals, the clever criminals will always win.

It’s a natural fact.

[butlerweave]

Free stuff attracts Leeches that will take all they can get and give NOTHING

[logi_cal869]

They’ve been unable to get the Freanch to cooperate and stop the boats. What did they expect was going to happen?

Probably some bad blood over Brexit.

[jmacusa]

“Nothing emboldens sin more than mercy.’’

[Segovia]

{The continual subsidy of bad behavior will continue to result in bad behavior.}

Well, of course it does! How many people besides Donald Trump think that the millions he’s offering thousands to have any more honorable intentions???

[Segovia]

This could never happen in the U.S.

/s THANK YOU!!