Guidance

Failure to travel to Bibby Stockholm vessel: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on action to take when an individual fails to travel to the Bibby Stockholm vessel at Portland Port.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 12 October 2023
• Last updated: 13 March 2024
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  1. 13 March 2024

     Updated the failure to travel to Bibby Stockholm vessel caseworker guidance with policy changes.

  2. 24 November 2023

     Updates to how assessment of an individual’s suitability to be accommodated on a vessel will be conducted, and to the Home Office contact details.

  3. 25 October 2023

     Updates made to align consideration of representations more clearly with suitability criteria in the Allocation of Accommodation guidance.

  4. 12 October 2023

     First published.

This publication was withdrawn on 25 July 2025

This publication is no longer current and is not being updated. See Failure to travel to asylum accommodation: caseworker guidance.

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance for staff which sets out the Home Office approach when an individual fails to travel to the Bibby Stockholm vessel at Portland Port. It is tailored to those who have been granted section 95 support under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (the 1999 Act).