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The Home Office announced that 'nothing is off the table' with 'just weeks' to solve a growing backlog of visa applications.

Ministers are expected to set out a plan to reduce the number of unauthorised migrants entering the UK via the Channel, as the total for 2022 passes a record 40,000.

Numbers have been rising in recent years despite UK efforts to clamp down on journeys

In 2021, there were 28,561 recorded.

Kent facility opened in January intended for short-term detention and processing of applicants but struggled with overcrowding after high number of Channel crossings

Britain and France are set to agree a deal possibly as soon as Monday to ramp up their joint efforts to stop illegal migrants from making perilous crossings of the English Channel, a British newspaper reported on Saturday.

Groups of people were pictured at Border Force facilities in Dover, Kent, on Saturday morning.

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The number of people at the Kent site was down to 1,147 as of 8am on Wednesday, Home Office minister Lord Murray of Blidworth told the Lords.

The Government said the fresh agreement between the UK and France is in its final stages.

Britain's new prime minister Rishi Sunak held his first face-to-face meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday and vowed to address the issue of cross-Channel migrants quickly. He also hailed renewed optimism towards ties with European partners.