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Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI).
Details of completed inspections awaiting publication, and active inspections.
The inspection focused on the efficiency and effectiveness of Border Force’s operational response to general aviation (GA) flights at London City Airport (LCY).
This inspection adopted a broad perspective on the interaction between the UK’s immigration system and the social care sector.
The IAGCI works on behalf of the Chief Inspector by commissioning and quality assuring reviews of the Home Office's country policy and information notes.
This inspection examined the availability and quality of the training, equipment, and guidance provided to Border Force officers in relation to the identification, handling, and storage of firearms.
This inspection was a pilot of a proposed new methodology for short-notice, light-touch observational inspections of some of the Home Office’s busy operational settings.
This inspection sought to examine the effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency of the Home Office’s processing of applications to Afghan resettlement schemes.
Annual report of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI)
This inspection examined the management of deprivation of citizenship cases by the Home Office’s Status Review Unit (SRU), focusing on the referral and progressing of cases, quality assurance, training, and guidance.
This thematic report covers reviews of country information on statelessness considered by the IAGCI at its February 2023 meeting.
This report covers reviews of country information on Albania and Pakistan that were considered by the IAGCI at its October 2023 meeting.
In December 2022, lead officials from the Northern Ireland Executive Office (TEO) and the Department of Health for Northern Ireland (DoHNI) wrote to the Home Office asking for an independent safeguarding review of hotels use…
This inspection examined Border Force’s capability in detecting prohibited and restricted items in fast parcels.
This reinspection sought to examine the effectiveness of ePassport gates at three ports of entry through onsite observations, and in that context, assess progress against recommendations made in the ICIBI’s report ‘An inspec…
This re-inspection of the use of hotels for housing unaccompanied asylum-seeking (UAS) children had a particular focus on the implementation of the recommendations from the previous 2022 ICIBI inspection.
This inspection examined the Home Office’s illegal working enforcement activity.
This inspection examined asylum decision making since the implementation of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.
The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has commenced a spot check inspection of Border Force’s operational response to general aviation flights at London City Airport.
The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has commenced an inspection of the Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority and invites anyone with knowledge and experience of this area to provide evidence for …
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