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  • An inspection of asylum casework (August 2020 – May 2021)

    This inspection examined the efficiency and effectiveness of the Home Office’s asylum casework system, which is managed by the Asylum & Protection Directorate.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • Second annual inspection of ‘Adults at risk in immigration detention.' July 2020 – March 2021

    The inspection makes 11 substantial recommendations.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • A short inspection of reporting events at Becket House Immigration Reporting Centre based on onsite observations. October 2021

    This inspection focused on the service user experience and the collection and recording of relevant information by Home Office staff. The report makes 2 recommendations.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • An inspection of contingency asylum accommodation: HMIP report on Penally Camp and Napier Barracks

    The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) with the assistance of colleagues from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMI Prisons) inspected the Home Office’s use of Penally Camp and Napier Barrack…

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • An inspection of the work of Border Force, Immigration Enforcement, and UK Visas and Immigration to identify, investigate, disrupt and prosecute perpetrators of modern slavery and human trafficking

    The report makes three recommendations which stress the importance of creating a clearer, more coherent set of roles, responsibilities and objectives for the Home Office Border, Immigration and Citizenship System’s response …

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • Inspection Report of Country of Origin Information, El Salvador and Sudan, December 2020

    The covering report makes one recommendation. This is in addition to the recommendations contained in the individual reviews, the majority of which the Home Office has already accepted.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and 1 others
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • An inspection of the Home Office’s use of sanctions and penalties

    This inspection examined the efficiency and effectiveness of the Home Office’s use of sanctions and penalties, specifically those measures designed to encourage compliance with the Immigration Rules.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • An inspection of the Home Office Presenting Officer function

    This inspection examined the efficiency and effectiveness of the Home Office’s Presenting Officer (PO) function.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • Inspection of Country of Origin Information Thematic Report on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or Expression

    This report looks at the Home Office Country Policy Information Team's products that deal with claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and 1 others
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • An inspection of UK Refugee Resettlement Schemes

    This inspection examined the efficiency and effectiveness of the UK’s refugee resettlement schemes, focusing on how the lessons from the operation of these schemes were applied to the design of the new UK Resettlement Scheme…

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • An inspection of the Home Office’s response to in-country clandestine arrivals (‘lorry drops’) and to irregular migrants arriving via ‘small boats’

    This inspection examined the Home Office’s identification and handling of migrants first encountered away from a port of entry, having entered the UK concealed in a commercial vehicle, and those migrants seeking to cross the…

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • An inspection of the Home Office’s use of language services in the asylum process

    This inspection examined the efficiency, effectiveness and consistency of the Home Office’s use of language services in the asylum process, with a particular focus on the quality and accuracy of interpretation services provi…

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • An inspection of family reunion applications (June – December 2019)

    The Chief Inspector's report examined the efficiency and effectiveness of the Home Office’s management of family reunion applications.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • Inspection Report on Country of Origin Information, December 2019

    The report from the December 2019 meeting of the Independent Advisory Group on Country Information looks at information produced by the Home Office in respect of Albania, Iran and Vietnam.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and 1 others
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • An inspection of the Handling of Complaints and MP’s Correspondence by the Home Office Borders, Immigration and Citizenship System (BICS)

    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’, pu…

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • An inspection of Administrative Reviews (May - December 2019)

    Building on inspections conducted in 2015 and 2017 this inspection looked again at the Section 16 'tests', which concerns the effectiveness of the Home Office's Administrative Reviews in identifying and correc…

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • Annual inspection of ‘Adults at Risk in Immigration Detention’ (2018–19)

    Following on from Stephen Shaw's reviews of the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons in 2016 and 2018, the then Home Secretary commissioned the Chief Inspector to report on “whether and how the Adults at Risk poli…

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • An inspection of the EU Settlement Scheme (April 2019 to August 2019)

    This is the Chief Inspector's second report on the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). It covers the period from the public launch on 30 March 2019 to the end of August 2019.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • A reinspection into failed right of abode applications and referral for consideration for enforcement action

    The reinspection reviewed the three recommendations made in the original 2016 Inspection and examines how the Right of Abode process is working.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated:
  • Inspection of Country of Origin Information Report June 2019

    The report reviewed the Home Office country information on Ethiopia and Jamaica

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Part of a collection: Inspection reports by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and 1 others
    • Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
    • Updated: