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On Monday evening, the British House of Commons rejected all 10 amendments to the bill to allow the deportation of illegal immigrants to Rwanda proposed by the House of Lords, which means that the bill will return to the upper house.more

London’s population has “almost certainly” surged to a record high in a reversal of the ‘race for space’ during Covid. Research by think tank Centre for Cities found that Londoners’ escape to the country during Covid was modest and short-lived.more

Major flaws in a huge Home Office immigration database have resulted in more than 76,000 people being listed with incorrect names, photographs or immigration status.more

A new briefing report from Hub staff at the Migration Observatory has been released looking at EU migration to and from the UK. It examines how many EU migrants are there in the UK and how the migration of EU citizens has changed since Brexit.more

The Home Office is dysfunctional and in urgent need of reform, the recently sacked independent borders inspector has told the BBC. David Neal said immigration failures went to the top of the department.more

Failed asylum seekers are to be offered up to £3,000 to move to Rwanda under a new voluntary scheme. The plan, first reported by The Times, is understood to be a variation of an existing voluntary returns scheme, where failed asylum seekers receive cash to return to their home country.more

John Lydon has lashed out at the apparent effects of immigration in the UK during a fiery interview in which he doubled down on his support for Brexit. The former Sex Pistol, who is himself the son of immigrants, decried Britain’s seaside towns as “run down” and full of “prospective immigrants”, which he claimed has fueled “animosity in communities.”more

Among expatriates, 2,500 men and 4,500 women do manual labor, mostly Ukrainians and Belarusian women, according to a report by Gremi Personal. The authors of the study reported that the change in the gender ratio in the labor market is taking place due to the war in Ukraine.more

New laws that will restrict health workers from bringing family to the UK and require care providers to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) if they are sponsoring migrants come into force on March 11. more

Russia is using private militias to control migration routes in Africa in order to increase the flow of illegal immigrants to western Europe at favourable times, such as before elections, the British 'Daily Telegraph' alerted yesterday, citing intelligence sources.more

Britain almost doubled the number of visas given to foreign health and care workers last year, government data showed, adding to pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over immigration ahead of an election expected later this year.more

The cost of the programme to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda could exceed half a billion pounds, the UK's National Audit Office (NAO) said in a report published today. This is a much higher figure than the government has reported so far.more

More and more Americans see immigration as the most important issue facing their country. Immigration has become more important than the economy and inflation for the first time since 2019.more

The UK yesterday reached an agreement with the EU border protection agency Frontex to work more closely together to combat illegal immigration. Among other things, the agreement allows for the presence of officers and drones from the UK Border Agency at the EU's external borders.more

Ukrainian refugees who took refuge in the UK after the Russian onslaught will be allowed to stay in the country for another year and a half, the UK Home Office announced yesterday. More than 200,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in the UK so far.more

A beloved cafe on Chiswick High Road saw its licence revoked after immigration officers discovered one of the workers was there illegally.more

Much to Brussels' disappointment regarding immigration, the new pro-EU Prime Minister Donald Tusk does not intend to change much in relation to the policy pursued by the Law and Justice government - said the British newspaper "Daily Express" yesterday in a commentary.more

A mother-of-three has warned “the right to fall in love with a foreigner is something that only rich people can have” as incoming Home Office visa changes threaten to split her family up. Families which face uncertainty over the “draconian” measures are presenting petitions, which have garnered more than 250,000 signatures, to Downing Street on Valentine’s Day.more

Influencers from six countries, paid by the British Ministry of Home Affairs, will use TikTok to persuade their compatriots not to make illegal attempts to cross the English Channel to Great Britain, The Times revealed yesterday.more

A bill to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda is "fundamentally inconsistent" with human rights legislation and damages the UK's reputation, the British Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights warned in a report published yesterday.more

Due to existing suspicions, British Home Secretary James Cleverly will investigate the conversion to Christianity of illegal immigrants accommodated on the barge "Bibby Stockholm", the British government said.more

The Afghan asylum seeker had been operating in Great Britain as a Russian spy for years, working for the British Foreign Office and probably also for the British secret services, The Times revealed.more

Around half of British workers do not earn the salary required to bring partners from overseas to the UK under new Home Office family visa changes, research suggests.more

In the UK, a manhunt is underway for the second day for an Afghan asylum seeker who poured a corrosive liquid on a woman, her two daughters and several bystanders. At the same time, questions are being asked about how it happened that the Afghan, who had previously been convicted of sexual crimes, was granted asylum.more

The initial list of illegal immigrants prepared by the British Home Office who could be sent to Rwanda first includes 5,664 people, the Daily Express revealed today.more