Media Reports Archive : February 2021
The UK granted asylum or offered some form of protection to almost 10,000 people last year - falling by more than half that of 2019, new figures show
The number of foreign criminals deported from Britain plummeted by 34 per cent to a record low last year
A successful Kurdish asylum seeker faces deportation back to northern Iraq after being convicted of rape
A coronavirus outbreak at an ex-Army barracks which is used to house asylum seekers has seen almost 200 migrants test positive for the disease so far
THE reliance of the NHS on immigrant labour is often cited as a symbol of Britain’s diversity and progressivism
The number of foreign nationals overstaying their visas in Britain has nearly doubled in five years, a report said yesterday
Channel migrants should face 'red list' quarantine, Tory MPs have said amid fears of high Covid rates in northern France
This is the moment a group of around 20 migrants landed in a dinghy on a Kent beach at dawn
49 migrants were picked up attempting to cross the Channel today in four separate small boat incidents, the Home Office has said
More than 170 migrants attempted to cross the Channel today with nearly 50 reaching the UK on one of the busiest days of the year so far
A Sudanese refugee stabbed an immigration officer to death in southern France after learning his asylum request had been rejected
A Palestinian refugee who went on hunger strike in a bizarre row with the Home Office about his age wants Supreme Court justices to consider his case
For immigrants like Miss Doabi, who used to be described in more welcoming times as 'New Danes', the country is feeling less and less like home
Eighteen months ago, Malcolm was at the vanguard of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement
The case was brought by a girl known as 'O'
Almost 5,000 Hongkongers have already applied for the UK’s visa route a fortnight after the scheme opened, The Times has learnt
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The Chief Inspector of Border and Immigration has visited Napier Barracks in Folkestone as part of an inspection of contingency asylum accommodation
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Three Iraqi men are being dealt with by Immigration Enforcement after an incident in Sawbridgeworth at the weekend
Around 7,000 Hong Kongers sought settlement in the UK on BNO passports between last summer and the opening of formal applications for the BNO scheme
The Lord Chancellor has blasted lawyers who deliberately delay immigration cases by lodging last-minute human rights claims
A Somalian double rapist has been allowed to stay in the UK on human rights grounds after a judge said he would face 'degrading' treatment
Now in exile in Britain, Ted Hui is determined to hold another powerful organisation to account. London-listed HSBC
It is hard to think of a more sensitive topic than the connection between sexual violence against women and the surge in Muslim immigration
Drones help capture and jail people smuggler who steered 30 migrants across Channel in overcrowded boat
Council chiefs say they will refuse to take more dispersed asylum seekers – if the government does not order other areas to do their 'fair share'.
The apparent freedom afforded to the migrants at the four-star neighbouring hotel contrasts with the draconian measures awaiting passengers
Seven Albanian stowaways have been arrested after they were found on a cargo ship bound for Dorset
Nearly five million EU citizens, more than all the people who live in Croatia, have applied for settled status in Britain after Brexit
The Home Secretary is to probe claims made by a passenger who said she walked through Heathrow unchecked after arriving from South Africa
The Home Office has abandoned controversial plans to house nearly 200 asylum seekers in what campaigners have described as a “prison-style” camp
A Stoke-on-Trent MP has quizzed Home Secretary Priti Patel over the 'disproportionate' number of asylum seekers in the city
The Home Office has rowed back after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said asylum seekers from Covid-19 'red line' countries would be sent back
The Prime Minister has been urged to toughen border controls
Border Force detained 49 migrants at Dover after they attempted to cross the English Channel in three boats on Saturday
The immigration minister has denied that using former army barracks to house asylum seekers has been a “public health disaster”
Illegal immigrants will be granted an 'amnesty' to come forward for Covid jabs, the Daily Mail can reveal today
Hundreds of asylum seekers are being housed at a large hotel near Heathrow
The exodus from Hong Kong is due to a controversial security law which Beijing imposed on the former British colony last June
Up to 205,000 passengers from countries with confirmed new variant cases are expected to enter the UK before hotel quarantine is enforced
Five people have been arrested for immigration offences
The pandemic has skewed crucial data on migration, leaving the Government ‘flying blind’ on the statistics, a study warns today
The pandemic means the UK can no longer track how many migrants are entering or leaving the UK, says a University of Oxford report
Even when the last Covid restrictions are lifted from London, there may be a little less bustle on its streets and elbow-jostling at its drinking dens
Something strange is happening in politics. The two main parties seem to have swapped places.
A Kuwaiti hit-and-run driver who mowed down two 18-year-olds has still not been deported from the UK more than a year after his release from prison
Police discovered an £800,000 cannabis grow when they raided a large house next to a nursery in Derbyshire
Police have detained three people in Tadcaster on suspicion of being illegal immigrants
Migration agents in Hong Kong say they have had a rush of inquiries from people seeking to access the new visa scheme
A pickpocket who targeted mothers looking after their children could be deported after being convicted 11 times in the last ten years
Police have arrested another nine people after an ex-army barracks was allegedly torched by angry asylum seekers
Frontex has suspended operations in Hungary
A councillor who was hit with punishments after sharing ‘offensive and racist’ Facebook posts is to have his sanctions reviewed
The U.K. starts taking applications as of Jan. 31 under a new immigration program for Hong Kong residents
Five men have been arrested over the riot at an ex-army barracks that was 'torched by angry asylum seekers' in a row over conditions
A sex worker who swallowed 101 packages of cocaine before attempting to smuggle the class A drugs into the UK has been jailed for more than four years
Channel migrants have set fire to their Kent barracks. Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, called the fire an “appalling” incident
More than 40 faith group leaders have written to the government opposing plans to build temporary accommodation to house about 200 asylum seekers