Border control

Services

Application to join civil penalty accreditation scheme

Form to apply for Border Force’s civil penalty accreditation scheme for hauliers.
Apply for approved gate check status for travel carriers

Air, sea and rail carriers can apply for approved gate check status to reduce charges for passengers without adequate documents.
Clearance of missing or delayed baggage

Form BOR1422 is used when clearing missing or delayed baggage through UK customs controls at ports or airports.

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Guidance and regulation

Electronic travel authorisation (ETA): privacy information notice
- Guidance
- 25 October 2023
- Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration
Entering the UK under the EU Settlement Scheme and EU Settlement Scheme family permit
- Guidance
- 2 June 2025
- Border Force
Entering the UK: exemptions to controls
- Detailed guide
- 2 April 2025
- Home Office
Travelling to the UK
- Guidance
- 14 May 2025
- Border Force
Sailing pleasure craft to and from the UK
- Guidance
- 22 August 2022
- Border Force

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News and communications

Over 30 arrests made in Northern Ireland people smuggler crackdown
- 23 May 2025
- Home Office
- News story
UK to clamp down on criminal networks in Western Balkans as the Prime Minister travels to Albania
- 15 May 2025
- Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
- Press release
Taskforce launched to enhance police response to people smuggling
- 15 May 2025
- Home Office
- News story
International crackdown on cannabis smuggling
- 25 April 2025
- Home Office
- News story
The use of online platforms in enabling organised immigration crime
- 1 April 2025
- Home Office
- Government response

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Research and statistics

Immigration system statistics, year ending March 2025
- 25 June 2025
- Home Office
- National statistics
Small boat arrivals and the impact of crossing conditions
- 3 June 2025
- Home Office
- Official statistics
Immigration system statistics data tables
- 22 May 2025
- Home Office
- Statistical data set
Statistics on foreign national offenders and the immigration system
- 22 April 2025
- Home Office
- Official statistics
Immigration system statistics, year ending December 2024
- 27 February 2025
- Home Office
- National statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025: impact assessments
- 9 May 2025
- Home Office
- Impact assessment
Organised Immigration Crime Summit: communiqué
- 31 March 2025
- Home Office
- Policy paper
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025: equality impact assessment
- 13 February 2025
- Home Office
- Impact assessment
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025: factsheets
- 30 January 2025
- Home Office
- Policy paper
Delivering border security statement
- 10 December 2024
- Home Office
- Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

Small boat activity in the English Channel
- 6 July 2025
- Home Office and Border Force
- Transparency
MEDP with Rwanda and the Illegal Migration Act: associated costs
- 2 December 2024
- Home Office
- Transparency
Border Force transparency data: August 2020
- 27 August 2020
- Home Office and Border Force
- Transparency
Border Force transparency data: May 2020
- 28 May 2020
- Border Force and Home Office
- Transparency
Border Force transparency data: February 2018
- 22 February 2018
- Border Force, UK Visas and Immigration, and Immigration Enforcement
- Transparency

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Organisations

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