The Latest Breaking News from the Home Office

The narrative that they are a threat to women and girls has no basis in fact, but bad actors peddle it, and ministers encourage them, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Sir Stephen Timms issued a letter in support of Udaya, which received a £180,000 Home Office fine for employing four illegal workers

Statutory body expresses ‘serious concerns’ over difficulties faced by some applicants taking short trips abroad

The Home Office has released footage of foreign criminals being deported from the UK to have their appeals heard from abroad.

Shady El Farra, a 28-year-old Egyptian national, worked at British Airways after studying in the UK and is fighting to be allowed to make Britain his home

Academic Heather Scott has been told by Home Office that being ‘acutely ill’ is not an exceptional circumstance

Officers targeting suspected illegal workers in Hillingdon, the borough with highest concentration of migrant hotels in London, as well as Dumfries in Scotland and Birmingham stopped 1,780 people

Almost a third of those arrested have been detained pending removal from the country

Between July 20 and 27, a total of 1,780 people were stopped, leading to 280 arrests for illegal working activity.

The proposed 6% surcharge has prompted warnings from vice-chancellors over its impact on budgets and global competitiveness

Anti-migration protesters and counterprotesters have clashed in recent weeks outside of hotels housing asylum seekers. While the protests have not reached the violent scale of the riots in summer 2024, a number of people have been arrested on charges related to violent disorder. Councillors in Epping have called for the…