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Life inside Essex’s ‘prison-like’ asylum seeker site Wethersfield

Exclusive: Residents at the Wethersfield asylum site in Essex speak to Holly Bancroft about the mental health crisis unfolding inside

The Independent UK

Threefold increase in lone child asylum seekers in UK, figures show

Number of unaccompanied children crossing Channel rises from 242 in 2021 to 772 this year, data reveals

The Guardian - UK

Man stranded in Turkey can return to UK after Home Office U-turn

Exclusive: Siyabonga Twala looking forward to reunion with his son after government withdraws exclusion order

The Guardian - UK

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Asylum seekers report widespread abuse in Home Office accommodation

Hundreds of complaints made to government over abusive behaviour from staff and low quality of food provided

The Guardian - UK

‘He didn’t have a contract for me’: the Indian careworkers who paid agents to work in Britain

People paid to obtain visas and sponsorship certificates but arrived to find little or no work, in abuses of care worker visa system

The Guardian - UK

James Cleverly suggests asylum seekers are lying about being suicidal

Human rights charities condemn home secretary’s comments about MDP Wethersfield and say the site is ‘acutely harmful’

The Guardian - UK

Syrian father with traumatic brain injury repeatedly refused disability benefits

Exclusive: The 27-year-old is partially blind, has lost hearing in the right ear, and cannot leave the house unless in a wheelchair

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Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda admission sparks legal action from detained asylum seekers

Migrants seek redress for ‘immense distress’ from deportations now thrown into chaos by election announcement

The Guardian - UK

Families in UK in ‘state of limbo’ due to backlog of visa fee waiver applications

Almost 33,000 submissions to the Home Office for visa fee waivers remain outstanding, the highest number ever recorded

The Guardian - UK

Home Office made mistakes in rush to set up asylum housing, MPs say

Committee says department pressed ahead with plans without adequate understanding of what would be required

The Guardian - UK

Drug testing to go ahead at festivals this summer after Home Office licence confusion

Campaigners had raised alarm over whether drug testing practice could continue

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda flights plan is not credible, damning report by MPs finds

MPs say they have ‘little confidence’ in Home Office’s ability to organise deportation flights to Rwanda

The Independent UK

‘I’m frightened’: the asylum seekers rounded up to be sent to Rwanda

Asylum seekers from Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan detained in government’s Operation Vector share their stories

The Guardian - UK

National reckonings and public inquiries: what scandals come next?

After the Post Office, infected blood, Grenfell Tower, Windrush and more, what could fall on the next prime minister’s watch?

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - UK

Family of man who died after being deported blame Home Office delays

Appeal allowed Sudharsan Ithayachandran to return to UK to be with his family, but he died in Sri Lanka while awaiting visa

The Guardian - UK

Record 10,170 people arrive in UK via small-boat Channel crossings this year

Provisional official figures deal blow to Rishi Sunak’s claim that threat of Rwanda deportation is a deterrent

The National (Scotland)

'Ludicrous': UK visa rules will 'bar Home Office staff from bringing spouses to UK'

THE Tories have been accused of acting without “rhyme or reason” over plans for spousal UK visas – which would bar the vast majority of…

Evening Standard

Student visa 'crackdown' announced but Home Office backtracks on graduate route rule changes

Rishi Sunak was said to be considering severely restricting, or even scrapping, the graduate visa route

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The Independent UK

Election headache for Rishi Sunak as UK population grows by 685,000 in past year

Net migration to the UK drops slightly after a record high 2022

The Independent UK

Huge drop in health and social care worker visa applications could ‘destabilise’ sector, leaders warn

Applications for health and social care worker visas drop by 76 per cent year on year

Evening Standard

UK visa applications from foreign health and care workers drop 76% as new Home Office changes take hold

Foreign carers were banned in March from bringing family to UK

Evening Standard

Just Stop Oil could be forced to pay compensation for protest disruption under government plans

Financial costs could be imposed on groups like Just Stop Oil if they carry out acts such as blocking roads or disrupting businesses

The National (Scotland)

Home Office slammed by advice centres over plans to hike fees

CITIZENS Advice Scotland (CAS) has condemned Home Office proposals to increase charges for advice services as research shows a 249 rise in demand…

Evening Standard

Migrants crossing Channel so far in 2024 nears 10k

Two more small boats have been seen arriving on Sunday.

The Guardian - UK

Home Office in threat to deport disabled man to Nigeria after 38 years in UK

Anthony Olubunmi George, 61, has been refused leave to remain despite living most of his adult life in Britain

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