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

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 If they do not do this within 20 days, their asylum application may be treated as withdrawn.

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'

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