An extra 130,000 primary school places are needed within three years due to soaring immigration and a high birth rate, figures reveal.

Record numbers of families will face disappointment when primary schools are allocated next week, following a steep rise in applicants.

This is partly due to the impact of immigration, as well as a booming birth rate and the fact that fewer middle class parents can afford to send their children to private school.

Councils are already deploying emergency measures to deal with the influx, such as squeezing pupils into ‘bulge’ classes and using little-known legal powers to override class size limits.

But as many as 100,000 pupils – one in five in some areas – are expected to miss out on their first-choice primary, with around ten pupils fighting for each place at some of the most sought-after schools.

Bygrove Primary School in Tower Hamlets, East London – which was rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted – received 312 applications for just 30 places.

It has been reported that some parents are even resorting to cheating to win offers from their chosen schools, by providing fake addresses or lying about sibling links.

Councils contacted by the Mail cited a Local Government Association report, which found that 130,000 extra primary places will be needed by 2017 – the equivalent of 4,750 classes or around 500 primary schools. Almost 90,000 additional places have already been created this academic year.

Areas under the most pressure include Bristol and Manchester, as well as parts of London such as Croydon, Harrow, Waltham Forest and Newham, many of which are home to high numbers of migrant families.

A report revealed on Thursday that officials drastically underestimated levels of immigration, missing 350,000 migrants from Eastern Europe after checking the wrong airports. Croydon alone needs to create 13,501 more places – 43 per cent of its current capacity – and in Harrow, applications have risen 14.8 per cent compared with last year.

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An illegal immigrant who fathered five children after arriving in the UK on a fake British passport has been sent to jail.

Mohammed Zulfiqar, 55, of Amberley Street, Bradford Moor, Bradford, was caught after he applied for a licence to get work as a doorman in the security industry and used the passport to support his application.

Further inquiries revealed the person named in the passport had reported his stolen, while a national insurance number quoted by Zulfiqar belonged to a dead man.

Martin Robertshaw, prosecuting, said Zulfiqar’s home in Bradford was searched on August 28 last year and a Pakistani passport was found with counterfeit entries on it including one that said there was no limit to the period he could stay in Britain.

In fact Zulfiqar accepted entering the country illegally in 2002 having paid an agent in Pakistan around £15,000.

Lisa Julian representing him said Zulfiqar now had five children under the age of six and a wife with health difficulties and was trying to fight deportation proceedings.

Zulfiqar was found guilty by a jury at Bradford Crown Court of using the fake British passport to gain employment and possessing the Pakistan passport with counterfeit endorsements.

Jailing him at Leeds Crown Court yesterday for a total of 21 months, Recorder Keith Miller said the fake British passport was a sophisticated forgery and it was only an expert who was examining it in minute detail who would spot some spelling mistakes in the small print.

But it had been spotted and when immigration officials went to his home they found the other passport with counterfeit stamps on it, including one purporting to be a visit to Islamabad.

“I believe you know very much more than you are prepared to divulge about the circumstances in which you acquired the British passport and the stamps on the Pakistani passport. What is clear is that you are in this country illegally.

“There is no record of your having entered the UK and during your evidence you stated you paid £15,000 to an agent in order to come here,” said Recorder Miller.

He said in the worst cases such false documents could be used to engage in acts of terrorism, although that was not the case here.

“In this and similar cases to yours the misuse of false passports undermines the legitimate purpose of the authorities in seeking to regulate immigration and the influx of people who wish to use our health, education and housing services.”

Recorder Miller told Zulfiqar it would be up to the Home Office what happened over his deportation but it was open to his family to go to Pakistan themselves.