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This inspection examined the Border Force operation to deter and detect clandestine entrants at the juxtaposed controls in northern France, focusing on how efficiently and effectively staff resources and detection techniques…
This inspection examined the effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency of the Home Office’s management of fee waiver applications for certain types of immigration and citizenship applications.
This inspection examined the performance of the Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority, assessing its practices and processes for making decisions, its approach to assuring the timeliness and quality of those decisions,…
This report covers reviews of selected country information on Georgia that the IAGCI considered at its meeting on 25 July 2024.
The inspection considered the Home Office’s use of hotels, hostels, and self-contained apartments as contingency asylum accommodation.
This report covers a review of country information on Rwanda that was considered by the Independent Advisory Group on Country Information in January 2024
The inspection focused on the efficiency and effectiveness of Border Force’s operational response to general aviation (GA) flights at London City Airport (LCY).
This inspection adopted a broad perspective on the interaction between the UK’s immigration system and the social care sector.
This inspection examined the availability and quality of the training, equipment, and guidance provided to Border Force officers in relation to the identification, handling, and storage of firearms.
This inspection was a pilot of a proposed new methodology for short-notice, light-touch observational inspections of some of the Home Office’s busy operational settings.
This inspection sought to examine the effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency of the Home Office’s processing of applications to Afghan resettlement schemes.
This inspection examined the management of deprivation of citizenship cases by the Home Office’s Status Review Unit (SRU), focusing on the referral and progressing of cases, quality assurance, training, and guidance.
This thematic report covers reviews of country information on statelessness considered by the IAGCI at its February 2023 meeting.
This report covers reviews of country information on Albania and Pakistan that were considered by the IAGCI at its October 2023 meeting.
In December 2022, lead officials from the Northern Ireland Executive Office (TEO) and the Department of Health for Northern Ireland (DoHNI) wrote to the Home Office asking for an independent safeguarding review of hotels use…
This inspection examined Border Force’s capability in detecting prohibited and restricted items in fast parcels.
This reinspection sought to examine the effectiveness of ePassport gates at three ports of entry through onsite observations, and in that context, assess progress against recommendations made in the ICIBI’s report ‘An inspec…
This re-inspection of the use of hotels for housing unaccompanied asylum-seeking (UAS) children had a particular focus on the implementation of the recommendations from the previous 2022 ICIBI inspection.
This inspection examined the Home Office’s illegal working enforcement activity.
This inspection examined asylum decision making since the implementation of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.
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