Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
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This Annual Report covers David Bolt’s last year as Chief Inspector.
ICIBI stakeholder engagement survey
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The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) is conducting a survey to gather views on how it can better target inspections and how its engagement with stakeholders could be improved.
ICIBI Inspection Plan 2021-22 Published
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The Chief Inspector publishes his Inspection Plan 2021-22.
An inspection of contingency asylum accommodation: HMIP report on Penally Camp and Napier Barracks
Independent report
The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) with the assistance of colleagues from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMI Prisons) inspected the Home Office’s use of Penally Camp and Napier Barracks as contingency asylum accommodation. The inspection was conducted between November 2020 and March 2021.
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What Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration does
The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration monitors and reports on the efficiency and effectiveness of the immigration, asylum, nationality and customs functions carried out by the Home Secretary and by officials and others on her behalf. The Chief Inspector is a public appointee and independent from government, his reports are laid before Parliament.
ICIBI is an independent monitoring body of the Home Office.
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- An inspection of contingency asylum accommodation: HMIP report on Penally Camp and Napier Barracks
- An inspection of the work of Border Force, Immigration Enforcement, and UK Visas and Immigration to identify, investigate, disrupt and prosecute perpetrators of modern slavery and human trafficking
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, Annual Report 2020 to 2021
- ICIBI Inspection Plan 2021-22
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Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
5th Floor, Globe House
89 Eccleston Square
London
SW1V 1PN
United Kingdom
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+443000 720128
Press Enquiries
+443000 710784
In line with Government Covid 19 advice to work from home where possible, the Chief Inspector and his staff are not currently based at Globe House. Please ensure you contact us via email only as conventional mail will not be opened and processed until staff return to office based working.
Please note the Chief Inspector and his staff are not part of the Home Office or the UK Immigration or customs system and cannot give advice or assistance on any immigration or customs issue or application. We are not able to advise of any direct contact details for the Home Office other than the general contact number of 020 7035 4848.
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89 Eccleston Square
London
SW1V 1PN
United Kingdom
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