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Series of OISC posters highlighting importance of using registered Immigration Advisers.
A range of support is available online, by email and telephone to help vulnerable EU citizens in Scotland apply to the EU Settlement Scheme.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The new Health and Care Visa will make it cheaper, quicker and easier for healthcare professionals from around the world to come to the UK.
Release of further detail on UK’s future immigration system.
Agreement reached to create an intelligence cell to crack down on gangs facilitating illegal crossings and people smuggling.
Four people have been arrested by Immigration Enforcement in connection with a people smuggling investigation as warrants were executed in Birmingham, Leicester, Telford and Coventry.
This inspection followed up on two earlier inspections of complaints handling by the Home Office’s Borders, Immigration and Citizenship System (BICS): ‘An inspection of the Handling of Complaints and MPs’ Correspondence’, published on 1 March 2016, and ‘A re-inspection of the complaints…
A man who attempted to smuggle 12 people into the UK hidden in a campervan has been jailed for over 4 years.
New treaties signed today make direct train services from Amsterdam to London possible later this year.
The Chief Inspector invites anyone with knowledge and experience of the Home Office’s EU Settlement Scheme to submit evidence for his next inspection.
More than 3.6 million applications already and over 3.3 million have been granted status.
Two people have been arrested by Immigration Enforcement as part of an international investigation into the smuggling of migrants into the UK by boat.
Border Force officers in Dover have prevented an attempt to smuggle cocaine into the UK hidden under a lorry’s bunk bed mattresses.
A people smuggler caught by Border Force officers at Dover has been jailed.
More than 170 kilos of heroin has been stopped from being smuggled into the UK by Border Force officers.
UK government announces successful transfer of 478 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children under section 67.
Building on inspections conducted in 2015 and 2017 this inspection looked again at the Section 16 ‘tests’ as defined in the 2014 Immigration Bill.
The milestone was reached with over a year still to go until the 30 June 2021 deadline, making it the biggest scheme of its kind in British history.
The Migration Advisory Committee launches a 6-week call for evidence.
Border Force officers at Coquelles have prevented an attempt to smuggle more than 260 kilos of cocaine into the UK in a lorry.
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