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UK police and Border Force to remain locked out of EU database of criminals

Exclusive: Home Office admits vital access to Schengen Information System II lost for up to four years

The Guardian - UK

The Home Office is sabotaging its own plan to tackle the asylum backlog

To cope with a record high backlog of asylum applications, the Home Office has announced it will instruct thousands of applicants to complete a questionnaire in English, instead of a face-to-face interview. If they do not do this within 20 days, their asylum application may be treated as withdrawn.

The Conversation

Migrant children in the UK are going missing from care – here’s how to protect them

Separated children who arrive alone in the UK are being placed in hotels by the Home Office – and many of them are then going missing.

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Grandmother threatened with deportation despite entire family living in UK wins right to stay

Exclusive: Susita Balasubranamiamm, 66, fought a six-year battle against the Home Office decision

The Independent UK

UK Border Force urged to ‘deprioritise’ gun and drugs searches to ease queues

Exclusive: Leaked emails show airport staff were guided to ease passenger waits during school holidays

The Guardian - UK

Why thousands of people who thought they were British could lose their citizenship

Confusion has arisen around the British government’s own understanding of its citizenship laws, following a judgment by the UK’s high court. In a ruling handed down on January 20 2023, in the case of Roehrig v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Mr Justice Eyre determined that the restrictive…

The Conversation

Migration policies failing both families and society, says Lords committee

A committee called on the Government to make the process for bringing family members to the UK ‘straight forward, affordable, transparent, and fair’.

The Independent UK

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Patel: Reports of criminal who murdered after avoiding deportation ‘appalling’

Ernesto Elliott was due to be flown back to Jamaica in December 2020 but was taken off a deportation flight after last-minute legal challenges.

The Independent UK

Asylum seeker plans legal challenge to Home Office questionnaire

Lawyers for Sudanese man launching action say questionnaire being circulated to 12,000 asylum seekers is discriminatory

The Guardian - UK

Maintenance failures sparked Heathrow detention centre disturbances, FoI reveals

Freedom of information responses reveal damning findings of internal investigations into power cuts at Harmondsworth in 2022

The Guardian - UK

Student with cancer wins payout after university refused to extend course for life-saving treatment

Riham Sheble said Warwick University’s treatment of her was ‘utterly unjust’

The Independent UK

Parents of Manchester Arena bombing victims distraught after 'patronising' Home Office meeting

'We definitely are not in any grieving process'

Manchester Evening News

Surge in number of Britons fighting to hold on to their citizenship

After the Shamima Begum decision, figures show dramatic increase in challenges to Home Office

The Guardian - UK

Terrified Ukrainian boy, 11, begs Rishi Sunak to let him join his dad in the UK

The family applied for Boris Johnson's Homes for Ukraine scheme last September and is one of 9,400 cases caught up in Home Office delays and red tape

Daily Mirror

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The Guardian - UK

Revealed: one in 100 police officers in England and Wales faced a criminal charge last year

Figure has surged over the past 10 years with pressure growing for officers to be sacked on the spot

Daily Mirror

Vulnerable asylum seekers 'prisoners in their own homes' after fleeing war zones

As many asylum seekers say they have been placed in unsuitable properties littered with tripping hazards, an expert blamed the system which she says 'creates a hostile environment'

Nottingham Post

Asylum seeker protestors outnumbered outside Long Eaton hotel

A protest and counter-protest took place outside the Novotel in Long Eaton around its housing of asylum seekers.

The Independent UK

She put Taliban members behind bars for their crimes. Now she’s in fear for her life – and the UK won’t help

Exclusive: Afghan judge, Yousa, has had death threats, been shot at and is a Taliban target after putting many behind bars. She is now ‘stateless’ in Pakistan and the UK government won’t help, as Maya Oppenheim reports

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Manchester Evening News

The Greater Manchester town where only four people sleep rough

Mo and Will have come through dark times

Liverpool Echo

How to speed up passport application as wait times are as long as 10 weeks

You might be able to upgrade your application and get your passport faster

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the asylum backlog: sticking plasters are no solution

Editorial: A Home Office questionnaire is unlikely to provide an answer to the problems that are causing delays

The Guardian - UK

Asylum seekers in Bedfordshire ‘afraid to leave hotel’ because of being filmed

Dunstable residents said to be taking videos of those staying at hotel that has been focus of protests and far-right leafleting

The Guardian - UK

The UK’s asylum questionnaires plan has inflamed left and right alike. All the while, lives remain in limbo

Some say the form is a crackdown. Others see it as an amnesty. But either way, 80,000 will be kept waiting, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council

Daily Mirror

Why Chelsea's Andrey Santos presents clearest transfer problem yet in post-Brexit reality

The Brazilian prospect is still searching for a loan move because he cannot get a work permit as Premier League clubs continue to come to terms with the GBE system that has seen worldwide playing pool shrink by more than 90%

Daily Mirror

The hundreds of desperate Ukrainian children saved by Labour peer who fled Nazis

Refugee campaigner Lord Alf Dubs – himself evacuated as a child from Nazi Germany via the Kindertransport - began raising Valya Pylypenko’s case to then Home Secretary Priti Patel, in the House of Lords, to news outlets and to civil servants

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