Mumbai: Mumbai airport is witnessing a decline in the number of bogus passport and visa cases, thanks to modern technology, immigration work pattern, passenger profiling and action on the part of the police.
Immigration department sources said that earlier, they used to see 200 to 300 such cases every year whereas now, the number was down to 34.
According to immigration department data (to which The Asian Age has access), in 2015, there were as many as 113 cases of fake passports and visas. A highly-placed source said that seven to 10 years ago, they used to see almost 500 such cases.
While the number of such cases is still not zero, officials are no longer treating it as security threat. Sources said that in all cases, agencies realised that the accused were migrating for work only. Going by previous years, people were using fake passports and visas to go to either the Gulf or European countries. There was a trend of migrating to the United States and Canada as well.
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