The Latest Breaking News from the Home Office

The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has announced plans for the biggest overhaul of the UK asylum system in decades. Some of the harshest criticism of the proposals has come from Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, a former child refugee who came to Britain on the Kindertransport from Prague in 1939.…

Campaigners marched through the streets of Crowborough carrying signs and flags, many wearing plain white T-shirts and chanting: ‘Send them home.’

Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision

Immigration enforcement officers raided Sadaf, in Westbourne Grove, following a ‘tip off’

Home Office ordered to reconsider case of Jeanell Hippolyte, whose father and brother were granted ILR

Neither the Home Office or the Foreign Office will raise any formal objections to the plan, according to reports

The UK's Home Office plans to increase the qualifying period for immigrants to apply for indefinite leave.

Findings of inquiry into handling of pandemic by Boris Johnson’s government paint picture of delay and inaction

Campaigners call for urgent reform of redress scheme and say they plan to launch ‘people’s inquiry’ into failings

Just 74 days into her new role as home secretary, Shabana Mahmood has unveiled what she calls “the most substantial reform to the UK’s asylum system in a generation”.

The home secretary has told police chiefs: ‘I was a reformer at the Ministry of Justice. I will be a reformer at the Home Office too’