20-05-2025
Fraudster used wigs and fake IDs to take citizenship tests
A woman who used wigs and false documents to pretend to be 13 people taking UK citizenship tests has been jailed for four years and six months.
Josephine Maurice, 61, a former bus driver, attended test centres across England to fraudulently take the 'life in the UK' test between June 1, 2022 and August 14, 2023, Snaresbrook crown court was told.
The test is a requirement for anyone seeking indefinite leave to remain or naturalisation as a British citizen. It consists of 24 questions aimed at 'proving the applicant has sufficient knowledge of British values, history and society'.
Sentencing Maurice, of Enfield, north London, on Tuesday, Judge Anthony Callaway described her actions as a 'wholesale assault' on the immigration system and said that there had
