The Latest Breaking News from Home Office

UK has begun mass arrests of potential Rwanda deportees: What’s next?

The UK Home Office has lost contact with more than half the people it wants to deport, has vowed to find them.

Al Jazeera · May 3, 2024

‘Compassion for the most vulnerable’: bishop thanks protesters who blocked asylum coaches

Bishop of Dover praised people who stopped removal of men from Margate to Bibby Stockholm barge

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2024

London protesters block transfer of asylum seekers to Bibby Stockholm

Dozens of demonstrators in Peckham surround coach, preventing it from taking people to barge in Dorset

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2024

Home Office has lost contact with thousands of potential Rwanda deportees, data shows

Minister says ‘officers are used to this’, as figures suggest Home Office is in contact with only 38% of people it wants to remove

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2024

Braverman dropping Windrush measures was unlawful, court told

Then home secretary’s decision in January 2023 to drop pledges was discriminatory, high court hears

The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2024

‘Forced’ move: Rwandans grapple with own fears over UK asylum seeker plan

Amid high unemployment and a housing crisis, many in Rwanda are apprehensive about the $272m migrant deal with the UK.

Al Jazeera · Apr 23, 2024

UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Lawyers prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east Africa

The Guardian - UK · Apr 22, 2024

Refugee who left UK for holiday in 2008 stranded in east Africa for 16 years

Saleh Ahmed Handule Ali, now 33, had indefinite leave to remain in UK, but Home Office failed to keep a record

The Guardian - UK · Apr 22, 2024

Sunak pressed to end Rwanda bill impasse by exempting Afghan service veterans

Some Tory MPs said to want concession as Home Office staff warn migrants marked for deportation will go ‘underground’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2024

OPINION - How dare Montecito millionaire Prince Harry demand our tax money to cover his legal costs

Prince Harry’s latest court defeat in his rightly unsuccessful bid to overturn the decision to refuse him guaranteed Met police protection after he pulled out of royal duties might seem like a trivial battle over legal fees.

Evening Standard · Apr 16, 2024