News and communications

Home Office criminal and financial investigators arrested 4 suspected people smugglers.

• Updated: 18 April 2024

UK and Vietnam agree closer cooperation to stop the boats.

• Updated: 18 April 2024

Today marks the launch of the latest phase of the government’s global campaign to warn migrants of the consequences of entering the UK illegally.

• Updated: 25 March 2024

Members reappointed to the Independent Family Returns Panel.

• Updated: 4 March 2024

Helen Chamberlain has been reappointed as chair of the Independent Family Returns Panel (IFRP).

• Updated: 22 February 2024

Three suspected fraudulent immigration lawyers have been arrested in Greater Manchester following a Home Office raid on Wednesday 24 January.

• Updated: 25 January 2024

Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat urged to end unchecked account sharing to protect the public.

• Updated: 14 November 2023

The UK and Austria have signed a statement today agreeing to closer cooperation on tackling illegal migration and terrorism.

• Updated: 7 November 2023

The Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick, made a statement to the House of Commons on illegal migration.

• Updated: 24 October 2023

Members of a gang who worked for cleaning contractors used by a string of Sainsbury's supermarkets have been sentenced.

• Updated: 10 August 2023

The UK and Türkiye have agreed a new partnership to enhance cooperation on tackling the illegal movement of migrants, and keep both countries safer.

• Updated: 9 August 2023

Fourteen migrants, including 4 children, were found hidden behind cardboard boxes in a van.

• Updated: 28 July 2023

The Home Office deployed over 300 immigration officers on over 150 enforcement visits in one day to crack down on illegal working across the UK. 

• Updated: 16 June 2023

A man who smuggled migrants in a 'coffin-like' hide inside the roof of a van has been sentenced to 3 years in prison.

• Updated: 11 May 2023

Over 1,000 Albanian nationals have been returned since the UK-Albania joint communiqué was signed on 13 December.

• Updated: 25 April 2023

Two people arrested by the Home Office in intelligence-led night-time raid.

• Updated: 17 March 2023

The Home Office returned more than 320 foreign criminals and immigration offenders with no right to be in the UK last month as part of efforts to stop the boats.

• Updated: 8 March 2023

Arrests made by the Home Office during an intelligence-led, pre-dawn immigration operation.

• Updated: 2 March 2023

Offenders removed had received combined prison sentences of more than 87 years.

• Updated: 2 September 2022

Both countries will seek to expedite removal of Albanians from next week following growing numbers taking treacherous journey on small boats.

• Updated: 25 August 2022