A GIANT billboard featuring a London double-decker bus reveals the shambles that is Britain's open-house immigration system.
Drive for visas ... London bus on Indian billboard
The advert - on an Indian street - openly plugs a dodgy scam that sells student visas for legal entry to the UK.
Using the famous tourist image of the bus, the message reads: "Get a FREE ride to the UK. Apply for admissions, get your visas & fly FREE to London". The photo was taken in Gujarat, India. Meanwhile The Sun can reveal foreign students' asylum claims have quadrupled in the last year, from an average of 20 a month to 90.
Route to London ... from Gujarat
It has also emerged that student visa forgeries hit their highest level last year. Students claiming asylum as their visas run out is just the latest in a series of loopholes in Britain's ultra-weak immigration rules.
Our revelations come ahead of a long-awaited Government clampdown on student visas, set to be announced this week. Nearly half of all immigrants arriving in Britain today come to study. But very few checks on them - coupled with a boom in dodgy colleges - has left the system open to massive abuse.
The number of young non-EU men and women arriving here as "students" has risen by 35 per cent in the last year. A total of 362,000 visas were issued in the 12 months to last June.
When their dependents are included, the number tops 500,000.
Sir Andrew Green, of pressure group MigrationWatch UK, said: "The Sun's photograph is staggering. You can hardly have clearer evidence of the gaping hole in our immigration system."
When student entry rules changed in 2009 the numbers applying were so high the UK Border Agency had to temporarily suspend some visas from Asia.
PM David Cameron has vowed to reduce immigrant numbers to the tens of thousands rather than hundreds of thousands a year. More than three million immigrants arrived in 13 years under Labour.
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