The Latest Breaking News from Home Office

Charity challenges home secretary’s claims about ‘economic migrants’

Refugee Council study suggests asylum claims by three out of four crossing Channel would be granted

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023

The only way to stop small boat crossings

Letter: Desperate migrants are crossing the Channel by boat because they have no other choice, writes former Home Office caseworker Nigel Clarke

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023

Come with me to a Home Office centre for disabled asylum seekers. See Britain’s hidden shame

Leaving disabled asylum seekers to rot in an old care home is the system working as intended, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023

Braverman’s claim over lowering of threshold for asylum seekers debunked by lawyers

Immigration experts say home secretary’s speech criticising global treaties related to refugees against guidance from her own department

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2023

NHS nurses considering job offers in Canada as Home Office ‘risks worsening workforce crisis’ with visa fee hike

Increasing visa fees is ‘self defeating’ and ‘short sighted’, a doctors’ union warns

Evening Standard · Sep 28, 2023

UK officials seeking to deport asylum seeker mistook him for three other men

Home Office officials rejecting Ranjit Singh’s application confused him with others of same name

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2023

Sir Elton John and David Furnish join wave of criticism over Suella Braverman’s speech on refugees

Singer says Home Secretary ‘risks further legitimising hate and violence’ against gay people

Evening Standard · Sep 27, 2023

HS2: Five Labour mayors to demand PM keeps project on track

On Tuesday, Home Office minister Chris Philp said Mr Sunak was reviewing how the cost of HS2 could be ‘controlled’.

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2023

Families ‘face £28,000 in costs’ due to ‘unjustifiable’ Home Office visa and healthcare fee hike

Migrants in the UK are looking at jobs elsewhere while businesses face a ‘massive hit’

Evening Standard · Sep 26, 2023

Braverman: No migrants crossing the Channel are in imminent peril

The Home Secretary will say in a speech in the US that asylum seekers ‘picking their preferred destination’ is ‘absurd and unsustainable’.

The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2023