UK Nationals arriving from Sudan to have access to benefits

Emergency regulations, which come into force on Monday 15 May, will ensure UK nationals, Irish nationals and those with Home Office leave which provides recourse to public funds, who left Sudan as a result of the violence, will be exempt from the residency tests and...

Call for evidence: An inspection of asylum casework 2023

In my 2023-24 Inspection Plan, I indicated that I would be carrying out a further inspection of ‘asylum casework’. Work on this has now begun and I am inviting anyone with relevant knowledge and experience to write to me with their evidence and views of how the system...

Driver who smuggled children bolted inside hidden van hatch jailed

A man who smuggled 4 Vietnamese migrants in a single ‘coffin-like’ hide inside the roof of a van has been sentenced today (11 May) to 3 years in prison. Nicolai Bogdan Lungan, a 32-year-old Romanian, was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court for assisting unlawful...