Deportation, removals and curtailment

Services

Find an immigration removal centre

Immigration removal centres - addresses, contact details, visiting hours.
Voluntary Returns Service: awareness materials

Order materials designed to raise awareness of the Voluntary Returns Service for those who may need help to return home.

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Guidance and regulation

Immigration status and enforcement action: caseworker guidance
- Guidance
- 24 December 2024
- UK Visas and Immigration
Deporting foreign nationals on conducive grounds: caseworker guidance
- Guidance
- 10 June 2025
- UK Visas and Immigration
Returning to your home country voluntarily: how the service works
- Guidance
- 25 July 2024
- Home Office
Returns preparation: caseworker guidance
- Guidance
- 8 August 2025
- UK Visas and Immigration
Voluntary Returns Service (VRS) stories of return
- Guidance
- 8 August 2023
- Home Office

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News and communications

Record single flight of illegal migrants returned under new deal
- 19 October 2025
- Home Office
- News story
First illegal migrants returned under new UK-France agreement
- 9 October 2025
- Home Office
- News story
UK could cut visas for countries that refuse to accept returns
- 8 September 2025
- Home Office
- News story
Tribunal system reforms to speed up asylum decisions
- 24 August 2025
- Home Office
- News story
More foreign criminals to be deported before appeals heard
- 10 August 2025
- Home Office
- News story

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Research and statistics

Detention summary: previous data tables
- 21 August 2025
- Home Office
- Statistical data set
Returns summary: previous data tables
- 21 August 2025
- Home Office
- Statistical data set
Ukraine visa schemes summary: previous data tables
- 21 August 2025
- Home Office
- Statistical data set
Asylum and resettlement summary: previous data tables
- 21 August 2025
- Home Office
- Statistical data set
Statistics on foreign national offenders and the immigration system
- 22 April 2025
- Home Office
- Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

Response to an inspection of operations to effect the removal of FNOs
- 29 June 2023
- Home Office
- Policy paper
Response to a report on the family returns process for 2016 to 2018
- 18 December 2018
- UK Visas and Immigration, Independent Family Returns Panel, and Home Office
- Policy paper
Government response to the report on Deportation with Assurances (DWA)
- 10 October 2018
- Home Office
- Policy paper
Home Office response to a report on the re-inspection of the Tier 4 curtailment process
- 12 July 2017
- UK Visas and Immigration and Home Office
- Policy paper
Home Office response to the report on a short notice inspection of the Tier 4 curtailment process
- 23 March 2016
- UK Visas and Immigration
- Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

Returns from the UK and enforcement activity
- 28 October 2025
- Home Office
- Transparency
Country returns guide
- 17 October 2025
- UK Visas and Immigration and Home Office
- Transparency
Flight returns data posted on X (formerly Twitter)
- 10 January 2024
- Home Office
- Transparency
Immigration Enforcement data: August 2016
- 25 August 2016
- UK Visas and Immigration
- Transparency
Training provided to immigration removal centre doctors on Rule 35
- 5 January 2015
- Home Office and Immigration Enforcement
- Foi release

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