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A user guide to Home Office irregular migration to the UK statistics.
Describes how carriers must provide passenger and service information to the Home Office.
This Border Force privacy information notice explains how we look after your information and why we use it.
Immigration staff guidance on how to process and assess asylum claims related to the clearance of the Calais camp.
Guidance for staff about the controls on importing firearms into the UK.
Objection and appeals notice guidance for drivers who are found with clandestine entrants in their vehicles by UK Visas and Immigration.
Guidance to help students through passport control when arriving at the UK Border.
Technical information for IT specialists who are helping general aviation and maritime clients to transfer data into the e-Borders system.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in September 2025.
A useful reference guide with explanatory notes on the issues and classifications which are key to the production and presentation of this release.
How the Risk and Liaison Overseas Network can help air, sea and rail carriers to detect inadequate passenger documents and reduce charges.
How to report suspicious or unusual behaviour at the border.
This guidance is intended for Home Office staff and covers people applying as members of a Head of State or ministerial delegation.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in August 2025.
Draft code of practice about the sanctions for non-compliance with the biometric registration regulations.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in February 2018.
Immigration staff guidance on the code of conduct for Home Office presenting officers (POs) and presenting staff.
On 28 November 2020, France’s Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, and the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, discussed the UK and France’s collaboration against illegal immigration.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
We use a fleet of patrol boats, known as 'cutters', to protect UK waters.
Guide for carriers on fines for bringing a passenger to the UK who does not have the correct immigration documents.
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