Number Of Relatives Accompanying Other Migrants Nearly Triples To 200,000+ In A Year

There were more than 300,000 grants of family visas and permits in the past year (a huge rise of 116,000 compared with the total seen just before the pandemic). Within this, the latest immigration figuresfrom the Home Office suggest a large rise in chain immigration to the UK, with the number of people coming as dependants of those […]

Illegal Clandestine Arrivals By Lorry

1. The total number of migrants entering the UK clandestinely each year is not known. However, our analysis suggests that there have been at least 320,000 attempts to come to the UK without prior permission from Northern France since 2014. This number does not include attempted but unsuccessful attempts to come via lorry from 2020 […]

Fraudulent documents presented to Border Force

Note: To see the shorter summary of this paper, click here. You can also read coverage of this paper in Metro, Daily Telegraph, The Sun and The Times. 1. A freedom of information release shows that nearly 2,000 fraudulent identity documents are presented to Border Force staff per year (totalling 21,256 between 2010 and 2020)[1] – see Figure 1 below for the trend […]