The Latest Breaking News from Home Office

‘Utter contempt’: Thousands of Turkish nationals in Britain trapped in limbo due to Home Office delays

Exclusive: Businesspeople who were welcomed to UK are falling destitute as they wait more than a year for visas

The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2022

Lack of data on citizenship-stripping goes against the Home Office's duty of transparency

A group of lawyers found that at least 464 people have had their citizenship removed by the government over the last 15 years. They pieced together the data using freedom of information requests and other publications – a challenge, because the Home Office does not publish the information regularly.

The Conversation · Jan 28, 2022

Home Office defends right to seize Channel asylum seekers’ phones

Lawyers representing home secretary apologise for secrecy but tell high court that policy is lawful

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2022

Home Office loses case over stripping citizenship without notice after challenge by alleged Isis member

Court of Appeal says parliament must decide whether Priti Patel should be given new powers

The Independent UK · Jan 26, 2022

Home Office rejects police watchdog advice to equip immigration officers with bodycams during raids

Exclusive: Ministers refuse to give body-worn cameras to immigration enforcement despite recommendation from IOPC after asylum seeker died while being pursued by officers

The Independent UK · Jan 26, 2022

ISIS bride Shamima Begum claims she wants to help Boris Johnson solve terrorism

Begum, who had her UK citizenship revoked by the Home Office on national security grounds in 2019, travelled from East London to Syria in 2015 when she was 15-years-old

Daily Mirror · Jan 26, 2022

Home Office accused of ‘bullying’ asylum seekers into handing over phones

Judicial review begins in high court accusing government of operating a blanket policy in ‘complete secrecy’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2022

Newcastle project say it's best to put refugees in the community - not detention centres

The pioneering scheme found it is both more humane and less expensive to support vulnerable female asylum seekers in the community

Chronicle Live · Jan 25, 2022

New rules could prevent thousands of refugees from joining close family in UK

More than 17,000 refugees, mainly women and children, could be barred under Home Office’s proposed changes

The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2022

Patel facing questions about why Liverpool bomber was allowed to stay in UK

Iraqi-born Al Swealmeen died after his homemade bomb detonated in a taxi outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

The Independent UK · Jan 24, 2022