The UK Border Agency are facing £20,000 fines after immigration checks carried out by themselves found they had employed illegal workers.
UK Border Agency officers visited their own offices in London on Thursday.
In the UKBA offices a 31-year-old from Bangladesh was found to be illegally working there and was arrested to be deported. Another 41-year-old Bangladeshi was also working there without a visa.
The firm told itself that it was facing being fined up to £10,000 for each illegal worker.
A 22-year-old Egyptian working at the UK Border Agency's visa department was found to have entered the country where he was illegally hired by the UKBA. And a 32-year-old Palestinian man was also working at the UKBA's Citizenship & Naturalization department without a visa.
Elliot Connor, deputy director of the UK Border Agency, said: “We were stupid enough to hire illegal immigrants to work for us here at the UKBA, and we then caught ourselves out and ended up fining ourselves for it. I guess next time we will think before hiring illegal immigrants.”
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