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Phil Kemp Political reporter

Watch: BBC reports from Home Office raid

Two people have been arrested in connection with a BBC undercover investigation into immigration advisers helping some asylum seekers pretend to be gay to stay in the country.

The coordinated raids in east London were led by the Criminal and Financial Investigations section of the Home Office's Immigration Enforcement team.

Last month BBC News revealed how migrants whose visas are due to expire are being instructed how to obtain fake evidence, including supporting letters and photographs, to support asylum claims.

The investigation secretly filmed at an event for LGBT asylum seekers where a succession of migrants told an undercover reporter that most of those attending were not genuinely gay.

The Home Office announced an investigation in response.

A woman in her late forties was arrested on suspicion of providing an immigration service contrary to section 91 of the Immigration and Asylum Act, while a man in his early…