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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 If they do not do this within 20 days, their asylum application may be treated as withdrawn.

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.

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

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

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…

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

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.

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

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

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

'We definitely are not in any grieving process'