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From 8 January 2025, US citizens travelling to the UK will need to obtain an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). From April, this will also apply to Europeans who are not UK residents.more

More than 200 stalking offenders released from prison will be GPS tagged by March 2026 under a pilot scheme from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. People who have served custodial sentences for stalking offences will be tagged with a tracking device under strict licence conditions, City Hall said, to "protect victims and help prevent reoffending".more

Home Office has postponed transition to digital visas but campaigners fear ongoing technical problems could cause travel chaos, writes 'The Guardian'.more

London and Berlin have signed an agreement allowing German people smugglers organising the transport of migrants across the Channel to the UK to be penalised. So far, German law has not provided for sanctions for smuggling people into non-EU countries, the BBC reported today.more

Marriages between first cousins would be banned in the UK under a proposal to be tabled in Parliament. Conservative former minister Richard Holden said such marriages have been linked to a higher rate of birth defects and can also “reinforce negative structures and control women”.more

Images of arrested people who were innocent of any crimes are still being stored in a police database that may be used for facial recognition purposes, an official report has warned.more

Only half of the Home Office’s recent asylum decisions have met its own internal quality checks, significantly fewer than before Rishi Sunak’s push to clear a backlog of old claims.more

Passengers will be allowed to use expired identity documents to travel to the UK because of flaws in the eVisa system, a minister has told the Guardian. Seema Malhotra, the migration and citizenship minister, said the government had postponed a planned full shift to the new digital immigration system amid “real fear” of another Windrush-style scandal among minority communities.more

In Italy, a ban has been introduced on the online registration of tourists in rental flats and the placing of special lockers on the door with keys for them. Under an Interior Ministry decree, guests of rental flats must be received in person in order, as noted, to avoid risks to the local community.more

Although the EU has allocated more than €1 billion to migrant integration in recent years, including language training and career guidance, the effectiveness of this aid has not been demonstrated, EU auditors revealed yesterday. In 2023, migrants accounted for 6.1 per cent of the Community's population in the EU.more

The Home Office said overseas workers in the UK care sector have been particularly vulnerable to exploitation and work visa abuse.more

Next year, there will be 14 public holidays outside of Sundays. Thanks to the free Christmas Eve, two days of leave will be enough to not work for a week in December.more

Households could be issued up to four bins to separate waste as part of new guidance given to local councils in a bid to streamline recycling practices.more

Net migration to the UK was 906,000 in the year up to June 2023 - far higher than previous estimates. About 1.3 million people came to live in the UK in this period, while 414,000 people leftmore

MPs have backed proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales in a historic vote which paves the way for a change in the law. Under draft legislation being considered by Parliament, terminally ill adults expected to die within six months could seek help to end their own life. In the first Commons vote on the issue in nearly a decade, MPs supported the bill by 330 to 275.more

Spain’s leftwing government has approved “paid climate leave” of up to four days to allow workers to avoid travelling during weather emergencies, a month after floods killed at least 224 people.more

A former soldier whose prison escape led to a prolonged manhunt in 2023 has been convicted of spying for Iran but cleared of carrying out a bomb hoax. Daniel Khalife was found guilty of two counts relating to his espionage on Thursday. Wearing a blue shirt and pale trousers in court, he calmly put his glasses back on as the verdicts were read out and did not show any emotion.more

Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media, after its parliament approved the world's strictest laws. The ban, which will not take effect for at least 12 months, could see tech companies fined up to A$50m ($32.5m; £25.7m) if they don't comply.more

A West London council has issued £34,000 in civil fines to rogue landlords since April but data shows only one was prosecuted through the courts in recent years. Kensington and Chelsea Council said it has also handed out 14 notices of intent to serve civil penalties and has introduced a new licensing scheme for larger house shares.more

A London court today ruled that former British Army soldier Daniel Khalife is guilty of spying for Iran. The 23-year-old's sentence will be announced early next year.more

The Sejm passed an amendment to the law yesterday, according to which from next year Christmas Eve will be a public holiday. The amendment also stipulates that from 2025, the three Sundays preceding Christmas Eve will be commercial. The regulation will now go to work in the Senate.more

France wants the European Union to adopt a resolution preventing teenagers from using social media before they turn 15, Politico reported. The French government intends to use the Polish presidency of the EU Council to do so.more

Britain is imposing the biggest sanctions package against Russia's shadow fleet, targeting 30 vessels, foreign minister David Lammy said on Monday, urging G7 allies to stand with, and equip Ukraine for as long as it needs.more

MPs are being urged to back plans to make the UK the first country to eradicate smoking, as new figures suggest tobacco will result in almost 300,000 Britons getting cancer within the next five years.more

The European Commission announced that it has closed an antitrust investigation into Apple that has been ongoing for more than four years over the anti-competitive rules the company applies to developers of e-book and audiobook applications.more