From fake news websites to staged political protests and bogus medical conditions, asylum seekers and the advisers helping them are using an array of fabricated evidence to bolster their fake claims.

It all amounts to a sham industry, which includes charging migrants for advice on how to pose as gay to claim asylum, as exposed by the first part of our undercover investigation into the immigration system.

Other techniques include paying to write articles in atheist magazines and hiring someone to pretend to be a same-sex partner.

At an office off the busy Mile End Road, in east London, on a Tuesday evening in early April, our undercover reporter was receiving an instruction course in how to apply for asylum.

Posing as a Bangladeshi student who had just dropped out of his university course, he had said he was looking at asylum as a way to stay in the country.

Now Zahid Hasan Akhand, who introduced himself as a barrister, was talking him through the different options and how to dupe the Home Office.

There were three routes to asylum for someone in his situation: as someone who faced persecution for their sexual orientation, their religious beliefs or their political views.

Akhand said he would handle the legal side, but it was up to the undercover reporter to choose whether he wanted to pretend to be gay, an atheist or a political activist.

All of the options would take work. For a legal fee of £1,500, Akhand would help him in "preparing your application, preparing you for the interview, taking repeated mock interviews".

But the reporter would also need to create evidence in order to convince the Home Office that he was not faking his claim.

Akhand said he knew people who could help with that and would introduce him "if you cannot find any other way".

It would cost between £2,000 and £3,000 and the type of evidence needed would depend on which path he chose.

If the reporter wanted to declare himself an atheist, the process would start with making posts on social media insulting Islam or the Prophet Muhammad.

"Religious clerics will start making comments threatening to kill you. Then you will see that your evidence has been created," Akhand said.

He would be introduced by the lawyer to atheist organisations in the UK and in Bangladesh that ran online blogs or magazines where, for a fee, he could make posts, again lending credibility to his claims. He suggested the reporter could use AI tools, such as ChatGPT, to write blog or article posts.

He would also need to attend events organised by groups for former Muslims and speak out during them because "this is not the age of posts anymore, it is the age of live videos".

Akhand suggested a possible story to tell the Home Office.

"You would say that you became an atheist after coming here. You were not one in Bangladesh," he said.

He later suggested "you could have written under a pseudonym if you were in Bangladesh".

Akhand said there is "no way to know who is an atheist and who is not…You just told me that you are not an atheist, which means you are not an atheist. But there is no system to check these things."

Resist Comment - further muslim corruption.  All immigration should be stopped, and then begin the process of returning all immigrants then all muslims.