Tag Archives: home office

Tuesday October 25 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Satement on Calais- Home Secretary’s statement on the transfer of unaccompanied minors from Calais camp

Thank you Mr Speaker. With permission I would like to make a statement on Calais. The French government today began the clearance of the migrant camp. I am clear this is in the national interests of both the UK and France. It is the start of a challenging but necessary...

Thursday October 20 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Unaccompanied minors arrive in UK ahead of Calais camp clearance

The first group of unaccompanied children have arrived in the UK from Calais today (17 October), following the Home Secretary’s pledge to transfer as many minors as possible before the camp is cleared. The group, aged 14 to 17, were transported across the Channel this morning. They will be screened...

Thursday October 20 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Home Secretary strengthens police response to modern slavery

The Home Secretary has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to stamp out modern slavery by today announcing £8.5 million of funding to help law enforcement agencies to tackle this horrendous crime. The funding, granted until 2018/19 following a bid to the Police Transformation Fund, will improve the country’s enforcement response to...

Monday September 05 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Joint statement by the governments of France and the United Kingdom

The Home Secretary of the United Kingdom, Rt Hon Amber Rudd, and the Interior Minister of France, Bernard Cazeneuve met in Paris on 30 August 2016. This very first meeting since the Home Secretary’s appointment in her role gave the opportunity to reaffirm the intention of France and the United...

Sunday July 31 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Community sponsorship scheme launched for refugees in the UK

The full community sponsorship scheme will enable community groups including charities, faith groups, churches and businesses to take on the role of supporting resettled refugees in the UK. An online service to help refugees in the UK has been developed to make it easier for any member of the public...

Monday March 14 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

From April people will be deported for earning less than £35,000

From next month, non-EU migrants earning less than £35,000 will be forced to leave. The new Home Office policy, which comes into force on April 6, applies to all overseas workers who have been in the UK for five years on a Tier 2 visa. If they can’t prove that...

Wednesday August 20 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Home Office ordered to pay £224m to e-Borders firm – BBC

The Home Office has been told to pay £224m to a major US corporation it sacked for failing to deliver a controversial secure borders programme. Ministers will pay Raytheon £50m in damages, plus other costs. The order to make the payments comes from a binding arbitration tribunal. Home Affairs Committee...

Saturday August 02 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Chief inspector of borders and immigration resigns

The independent chief inspector of borders and immigration is to leave the role more than six months early. John Vine had been due to step down in July 2015 when his term ended but will now leave on 31 December this year. During his six years in the role, his...

Wednesday June 25 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

English language tests inquiry declares thousands of results invalid

More than 50,000 English language tests taken by overseas students to extend their British visas have been declared invalid or questionable as a result of an official investigation into cheating on a huge scale. Home Office ministers have suspended the overseas student sponsorship licences of one university – Glyndwr, near...

Tuesday June 10 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

United Kingdom – Modern Slavery Bill published

The Modern Slavery Bill is the first of its kind in Europe, and one of the first in the world, to specifically address slavery and trafficking in the 21st century. It will give law enforcement the tools they need to target today’s slave drivers, ensure perpetrators are severely punished and...

Tuesday March 04 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Immigration report ‘held back by Downing Street’

Downing Street has prevented the publication of a politically awkward cross-governmental report which found one potential cost of immigration is smaller than has been claimed. The research suggests “displacement” – the number of UK workers unemployed as a consequence of immigration – is well below that claimed by ministers. But...

Wednesday January 15 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Home Office staff rewarded with gift vouchers for fighting off asylum cases

Home Office officials are being rewarded with shopping vouchers for helping to ensure failed asylum seekers lose their attempt to stay in the country, new documents reveal. Official guidance obtained by the Guardian shows that immigration staff have been set a target of winning 70% of tribunal cases in which...

Wednesday August 07 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Home Office ‘Go Home’ drive on illegal immigrants faces Liberty riposte

It is another van carrying a poster connected to immigration, touring ethnically diverse parts of London, but the message could hardly be more different from the government’s version. This poster van has been organised by the campaign group Liberty as a riposte to the Home Office’s recent “Go Home” campaign....

Sunday August 04 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Immigration spot checks not racist, says Home Office

The Home Office has denied that officials broke the law by carrying out “racist” spot checks on suspected illegal immigrants on the basis of their skin colour. The denial by immigration minister Mark Harper came after the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched an investigation into the immigration checks for...

Monday July 22 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. One comment

Eight illegal workers arrested at Livingston restaurant

A Chinese restaurant in Livingston is facing fines of up to £80,000 after eight illegal workers were arrested by immigration officials. Home Office immigration enforcement officers arrested six men and two women from China after carrying out checks at the China Glen restaurant. During the operation, three of the workers...

Monday July 22 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Illegal immigrants targeted in ‘go home’ ad campaign

A former Liberal Democrat minister, Sarah Teather, has criticised a Home Office “go home or face arrest” mobile billboard advertising campaign as “nothing less than straightforward intimidation”. Teather, who accused ministers of “cranking up the anti-migrant rhetoric”, is MP for Brent Central, in one of six London boroughs where the...

Saturday July 13 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Immigration backlog of 500,000 cases will take 37 years to clear, say MPs

The Home Office’s backlog of 500,000 unresolved immigration and asylum cases will not be cleared for another 37 years at current rates of progress, according to a parliamentary watchdog. Launching a report on the work of the now abolished UK Border Agency, Labour MP Keith Vaz, chair of the Commons...

Wednesday June 26 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

The Britons leaving the UK to get their relatives in

British citizens are bypassing immigration regulations to get their relatives into the UK, using a technicality that means that if they work in another European country for three months, they can be considered under EU rather than British law on their return. Is this cheating the system or just getting...

Wednesday June 26 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

UKBA ‘ignored’ police data on missing asylum seekers

Immigration officials failed to pursue more than 3,000 leads when trying to track down missing asylum seekers, an independent inspector has found. John Vine, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, said the now-defunct UK Border Agency (UKBA) took no action on 3,077 cases. The UKBA deemed the Police...

Thursday February 21 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Home Secretary, please call off the attack on kidney patient Roseline Akhalu

If Theresa May wins her legal battle to have a Leeds transplant patient deported to Nigeria, Roseline Akhalu dies. If Roseline wins, where is the harm? In Parliament last week Greg Mulholland, the Liberal Democrat MP for Leeds North, challenged the Home Secretary over her relentless persecution of Roseline Akhalu,...

Wednesday January 23 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Inspector finds UK Border Agency backlog dating back 10 years

A “completely unacceptable” UK Border Agency backlog of more than 16,000 applications from migrants for permission to stay in Britain, some of them dating back almost a decade, has been uncovered by the chief inspector of borders and immigration. John Vine says the backlog includes 14,000 people who are married...

Thursday November 22 Posted by UK Immigrant Magazine. No comments

Home Office relaxes settlement rules for foreign troops serving in army

Rules barring foreign and Commonwealth troops serving in the British armed forces from settling in the UK if they incur minor disciplinary convictions are to be relaxed. The Home Office will announce on Thursday that personnel with only minor disciplinary convictions will be able to stay on in Britain after...

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