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Home Office pauses decisions on Syrian asylum claims after Assad’s fall

Officials will ‘assess the current situation’ before making decisions on claims from the country.

Evening Standard

Residents could be barred from UK due to eVisa confusion, say rights groups

Home Office has postponed transition to digital visas but campaigners fear ongoing technical problems could cause travel chaos

The Guardian - UK

Home Office says only half of UK asylum decisions meet its quality standards

Rishi Sunak’s push to clear backlog of claims is driving huge increase in legal appeals, costs and harm to applicants

The Guardian - UK

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Agency that brought heavily indebted Indonesian workers to UK loses licence

Exclusive: AG Recruitment found not to have acted ‘in a fit and proper manner’ by labour exploitation watchdog

The Guardian - UK

Home Office trial doubles time refugees have to find home before eviction

Charities and politicians praise increase to 56 days but press for move to be made permanent

The Guardian - UK

'I was so terrified of my stalker lover I slept with a screwdriver under my pillow'

Whether on or offline, stalking is equally terrifying in different ways, says Lucy Holden. She reflects on the importance of new sanctions announced by the Home Office that give victims the ‘right to know’ who their abuser is

Evening Standard

Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud

Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach

The Guardian - UK

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'Move on' period for refugees doubled to 56 days in major homelessness victory for London Standard

The Standard has secured a major victory in its A Place to Call Home winter appeal

Evening Standard

Refugees in Home Office hotels will be given twice as long to find new accommodation before eviction

Exclusive: Grace period for newly granted refugees to extend from 28 days to 56 days next week

The Independent UK

What are eVisas? Labour pledge to implement system despite Yvette Cooper admission of 'problems'

The UK Home Secretary confirmed there had been “some problems”

Evening Standard

Labour MP’s bid to end ‘alienating’ discrimination against Jews and Sikhs

Britain’s first female Sikh MP has brought forward a bill to end a discriminatory practice by public bodies which leaves Sikhs and Jews further exposed to hate crimes and poor health treatment

The Independent UK

Visas rollout: Home Office confirms how long expired travel documents can be used after eVisa problems

The full eVisa rollout is being postponed after campaigners warned problems with the system could ‘lead to another Windrush’

Evening Standard

Use expired ID to get to UK, says minister in charge of flawed eVisas

People will be allowed to use expired identity documents amid ‘real fear’ of another Windrush-style scandal

The Guardian - UK

Tackling violence against women and girls an ‘obsession’ for PM, MPs told

Victims will be given the ‘right to know’ who their online stalker is, Home Office minister Jess Phillips said.

Evening Standard

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The National (Scotland)

Rock band cancels Scottish show after criminal singer denied UK entry

A rock band has been forced to cancel their Glasgow Hydro show after the Home Office refused to allow the band's front man to enter the country.

Evening Standard

Winter appeal: Homeless and refugee charities back our call to improve rights of asylum seekers

As part of our A Place To Call Home winter appeal, the Standard is calling for asylum seekers to be allowed to work after six months

The Guardian - UK

MPs back PR bill in vote, a symbolic win for electoral reform campaigners – as it happened

MPs vote to give leave to bring in private members’ bill on PR but it will have no practical effect

Evening Standard

Full rollout of eVisas postponed after foreign worker warning

Campaigners warned that people with permanent British residency visas were unable to switch over to the Government’s new eVisa system

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The Independent UK

Stalking victims will be able to learn who the perpetrator is under new crackdown

Courts will be able to hand out protection orders even when individuals have been acquitted if sufficient evidence exists to indicate they pose a risk

The Independent UK

More protection for victims as Government vows crackdown on stalking

The Home Secretary has committed to using ‘every tool available’ to take power from abusers and hand it to victims.

Evening Standard

Jess Phillips tells of online stalking ordeal as victims to get right to know identity of perpetrators

The Home Secretary has committed to using ‘every tool available’ to take power from abusers and hand it to victims

Evening Standard

Channel crossings by migrants in small boats: Key numbers

Afghan migrants accounted for the single largest group of arrivals in the first nine months of the year.

The Guardian - UK

Many unable to access eVisas to prove right to be in UK, Home Office admits

Campaigners say problems with digital transfer could affect hundreds of thousands of people on ‘10-year route’ visas

The Guardian - UK

More than 600 Brazilians deported by Home Office on three secret flights

Record number of deportees includes children who may have spent most of their lives in the UK

The National (Scotland)

Tories ran 'open border experiment', Keir Starmer claims as he vows migration cut

KEIR Starmer has claimed the Tories ran a “one nation experiment in open borders” in the UK, as new figures revealed the Home Office was…

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