UK Border Patrol TV Show

I really shouldn't watch this show. It makes me so nervous! 

Some not-so-bright-sounding American basketball player claims he is here to visit his Portuguese girlfriend that he lives with in Spain but she's moving (I think) to the UK. It made me think of this forum.

It's just too nerve wracking to imagine being illegal. I have to get those Visas!

I always skip over UK Border Force or whatever it's called on Sky1 for the same reason, even though I have my visa already!  Immigration stresses me out in my own life and that's quite enough, thank you!

I know!  DH and I watched the Australian version the other night and were wiping our brows practically the whole time.  I mean...we were never trying to do anything illegal during all of our earlier visits, but watching that kind of stuff still makes us nervous.  

Poor guy! They kicked him out. One day to visit his girlfriend and they help his passport. They told him to come back with a marriage visa.  At least they didn't send him home.

Can't stop watching. At least I'm not sneaking in by truck but this show makes me FEEL like I am, somehow.

I've been waiting for someone bring up this program. I just watched this for the first time last week when I got back to the UK. Some of the Americans trying to enter in to the UK were so clueless, but hey, I was once that clueless American as well and took moving freely between the US border and UK border as my God-given, natural-born right.

I love this programme! But then I love Judge Judy...I guess I'm just addicted to Stupid People. 

I watch this too, against my better judgement. 

Dang, sounds like a new series instead of the re-runs we had been watching...I find it interesting to watch, sometimes...

I love this programme!

I love watching this.  I've been waiting to find out that someone from UKY was on it!  Of course it might end up being someone that comes to us after the fact since most of us would be smarter than the people on this show.  It will be one of those who comes to us saying "help, I've made a horrible mistake and NEED to come to the UK to be with the love of my life!"

I just enjoy watching the inside of the process we've all been through.  I enjoy watching this one even more than the Australian and New Zealand versions because I've gone through the UK process.

It will be one of those who comes to us saying "help, I've made a horrible mistake and NEED to come to the UK to be with the love of my life!"

no, it will be a 'soul mate'! 

I like this show!  Mostly because I get to laugh a little at the naivete of a lot of the people coming in.  My husband loves the part where they go and raid businesses looking for illegal workers.  I feel a tiny bit sorry for them, but also a bit annoyed (and this is in general) as obviously every illegal immigrant makes it harder for those of us who want to play by the rules.

The Australian version is more Customs-focused, which actually cracks me up because the Customs people will often catch immigration transgressions that Immigration missed - doesn't give me much faith in Aus Immigration's thoroughness of questioning!  Also, has anyone else noticed that almost ALL the people they conveniently stop & search happen to be from East Asia?  Don't like that .

Poor guy! They kicked him out. One day to visit his girlfriend and they help his passport. They told him to come back with a marriage visa.  At least they didn't send him home.

Can't stop watching. At least I'm not sneaking in by truck but this show makes me FEEL like I am, somehow.

That chap just made an honest mistake.   They let him in because it was obvious he wasn't being deceitful, just ignorant. 

He had already lived with the gal and had a real relationship with her and was ready for marriage.

Hopefully he was able to propose and then the two of them go back to the US to marry and he re-entered as an EU/EEA spouse.

I love the Aussie one, Border Security.  They call it Nothing to Declare here but if you say that to an Aussie they won't know what you're talking about because it's Border Security over there.

Did anyone see that one where the American went to Oz, complete with engagement ring, to meet and propose to his internet 'soulmate' and she never showed up.  Then Immigration phoned the place where she was supposed to be employed and they'd never heard of her.

This one's a guilty pleasure of mine.

This one's a guilty pleasure of mine.

Same here, I watched it a bunch when I was in the UK last. It made me a little nervous, but then there were people who were just being dumb, like the blokes that came back from Amsterdam with baggies of pot stuffed away in their socks and such and they ended up having to pay a bunch of fines for it. It's certainly not something I'd want to risk going through any nation's immigration anyway

I watched a form of this in the US as well, it followed Customs and Border patrol agents on both the Canadian and Mexican borders, along with some airports in New York and Miami and Chicago and such. And I have heard of the Australian version, which I'm hoping to catch some episodes of when I move back over to the UK later this year.