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Small donations from Pakistani men to the Peter Tatchell Foundation have soared in a bid to secure membership cards or "proof of homosexuality" - and he told the Daily Mail he was forced to write to Home Office immigration chief Joanna Rowland in January as a result.

"It has come to our attention that some asylum applications from South Asia have referenced the Peter Tatchell Foundation in support of their claims to secure asylum," he wrote.

"For the past 18 months, we have noticed almost daily donations of less than £3, sometimes as many as 30 in a single day.

"It is apparent many of these donors are likely asylum applicants. We have also received emails from some of these 'donors' requesting membership cards or letters for their asylum applications."

Tatchell told the newspaper: "Of the hundreds of genuine refugees the Peter Tatchell Foundation has helped secure asylum, I am not aware any have been exposed as fraudulent.

"The people we help have gone on to become model members of the community, contributing to the UK economy.

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"Any suspicious requests for help are promptly investigated and blocked.

"These waves of 15-30 small donations raised our concerns. They correspond to people who soon afterwards request membership cards and letters of support for asylum claims."

The Home Office said in response: "We take all claims of abuse of the immigration system extremely seriously, and where found, we will robustly challenge it."

In Pakistan, homosexual activity between men is criminalised - with a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Immigration tribunals have ruled in the past that convicted sex criminals from the country can stay in Britain on that basis, which is backed by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Such rulings have helped spark calls for Britain to leave the ECHR altogether - and just days ago, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch told GB News that her party is "already" reviewing policy on leaving the Convention.

Then on Tuesday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper vowed to knock down "obstacles" to deporting migrant sex offenders after introducing plans to change the law to prevent them from being able to claim asylum.

Asked whether sex offenders could be stopped from using the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to appeal against their removal, the Home Secretary told Times Radio: "Of course, there are often other obstacles that are put in the way of different kinds of returns and removals, but that's why we're working so hard to seek to remove those.

"But the first step is to remove somebody's entitlement to asylum protection in the first place if they have committed these serious crimes."