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UK visa papers continue to be lost at Home Office

16:18 15/08/2018
UK visa papers continue to be lost at Home Office The UK visa status of hundreds of foreign nationals in the UK is in turmoil after vital personal papers were lost by UK Visas and Immigration at the...

Passport exit immigration checks now in force at UK borders and ports

15:02 23/04/2015
A new scheme is being phased in at UK border crossings, so that UK immigration can collect data on all passengers leaving the country. The information is obtained by staff working for airlines, ferry...

Former UK immigration chief inspector John Vine criticises Home Office

11:00 26/01/2015
The former UK Chief Inspector for borders and immigration, John Vine, has criticised the current government policy on UK immigration. This is the first time Mr Vine has spoken publicly since quitting...

UK immigration: Home Office loses even more illegal immigrants

12:17 19/12/2014
The Home Office has 'lost' about 174,000 illegal immigrants, according to a new report by John Vine, Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration According to the report, there were 232,000 foreign...

UK's Chief inspector of immigration resigns

19:41 15/09/2014
John Vine, the independent chief inspector of the UK's borders and immigration services, has announced that he will leave his post on 31st December this year, six months before the end of his current...

UK immigration: 175,000 migrants still missing after eight years

13:05 30/07/2014
The UK's National Audit Office (NAO) has issued a report into the workings of the UK's asylum and immigration system and has found that, eight years after a massive backlog of 450,000 'lost' cases...

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