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UK immigration

  • Tuesday, 4 November, 2025
    Sarah O'Connor
    Why the job ladder matters for migrants

    Obstacles in progressing are important both for people and for the economy

    3 hours ago
    A demonstrator shows a passport during a protest in Hong Kong in 2020
  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    Global migration
    OECD reports sharp fall in work-related migration to rich countries

    Movement for family and humanitarian reasons continued to rise in 2024

    Travellers with luggage walk under an ‘Arrivals’ sign inside Luton airport
  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Are Britain and the US losing their allure for top talent?

    Open hostility and high visa fees are a risky bet amid intensifying competition for the world’s brightest and best

    Montage of images of a woman with a wheelie suitcase seen from behind and a doctor in scrubs seen from behind tying his face mask
  • Thursday, 30 October, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    Why Starmer can’t rely on a ‘stop Farage’ campaign

    For all Labour’s belated muscularity on race and migration, it is not the winning card

    Illustration of a chain made up of green, red and orange links held together by clasped hands. The hands on the red Labour link are struggling to hold on
  • Thursday, 30 October, 2025
    UK politics
    UK rightwing voters more anti-immigrant than Trump supporters, survey finds

    Polling paints a stark picture of how immigration has helped to polarise Britain’s politics

    Montage shows Donald Trump and Nigel Farage against a data backdrop
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    Epping sex offender received £500 to co-operate with deportation

    Home Office staff made decision after Hadush Kebatu threatened to disrupt his removal to Ethiopia

    Hadush Kebatu, as identified in the caption, looking slightly away from the camera in a close-up shot.
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    UK crime
    Afghan refugee arrested after fatal stabbing in north-west London

    Home Office said 22-year-old suspect was not living in accommodation for asylum seekers

    Forensic officers in blue protective suits and gloves stand behind police tape on a residential street, examining the area
  • Tuesday, 28 October, 2025
    UK vows to end illegal gig economy work for migrants

    Companies will be required to conduct stringent checks on people

    Deliveroo and Just Eat couriers on bicycles with branded delivery bags ride through a city street.
  • Tuesday, 28 October, 2025
    UK military sites to house asylum seekers in Labour U-turn

    Decision to put migrants in former army barracks marks policy reversal by Keir Starmer

    People walk outside brick barracks buildings at Napier Barracks, used to house asylum seekers
  • Monday, 27 October, 2025
    Home Office wasted billions on asylum hotels due to ‘flawed contracts’, MPs say

    Leadership failures at UK government department criticised by cross-party Commons committee

    Border Force officers with blurred faces process small boat migrants at computers in an immigration centre in Manston, Kent
  • Sunday, 26 October, 2025
    UK politics
    Labour ministers round on Reform UK over MP’s ‘racist’ remarks

    Sarah Pochin’s comments on race in advertising elicit concerted response by politicians in effort to dent populist party’s appeal

    Nigel Farage and Sarah Pochin of the Reform Party smiling and talking during the Runcorn and Helsby by-election vote recount
  • Friday, 24 October, 2025
    Lammy ‘appalled’ at accidental release of Epping asylum seeker from prison

    UK justice minister orders probe after Ethiopian man jailed for sexual assault is freed instead of being moved to deportation centre

    Hadush Kebatu in handcuffs beside a police car during his arrest, with officers visible and some faces blurred.
  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Tory deportation plan would upend Britain

    Proposing such a radical bill with little public support is a gift to Nigel Farage

    A nurse adjusts a medical monitor next to a patient lying in a hospital bed on a general ward.
  • Wednesday, 22 October, 2025
    Migrant deported to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal returns to UK

    Home Office says it will not ‘accept abuse of borders’ after man re-enters Britain on small boat

    A crowded group of people, many wearing orange life jackets, wade through water and board an inflatable boat at sea.
  • Wednesday, 22 October, 2025
    Hongkongers in UK rue rockiness of ‘lifeboat’ after threatened visa changes

    People who fled Chinese territory are angry after London looks at doubling length of time required to gain citizenship

    Alpha Wong sits on a low ledge outdoors, wearing glasses and a black plaid jacket, with autumn leaves in the background.
  • Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
    Prospective chair of Starmer’s ‘grooming gang’ inquiry pulls out

    Third abuse survivor quits role in national probe, citing ‘toxic environment’

    Fiona Goddard speaks at a press conference, with a Union Jack flag visible in the background.
  • Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
    Scientific research
    Scientists charged too much to come to work in UK, says Royal Society

    Combined upfront cost of the five-year Global Talent Visa and the Immigration Health Surcharge stands at £5,941

    Montage shows female scientist looking through a microscope against a data background
  • Monday, 20 October, 2025
    Russian tech workers rethink UK ties after settlement rules change

    Digital entrepreneurs turn to US in search of higher pay and opportunities in test of Labour plan to lure ‘global talent’

    Alex Tkachenko stands indoors with one hand on his hip and the other resting against a window frame.
  • Thursday, 16 October, 2025
    Shifting smuggler tactics hindering small-boat fight, says UK border security chief

    Martin Hewitt tells MPs up to 125 people cramming on to each craft

    People wearing life jackets wade through shallow water as a crowded inflatable boat with others pulls away in the sea.
  • Wednesday, 15 October, 2025
    Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary admits

    Shabana Mahmood says public trust in state will be weakened unless politicians ‘bring order’ to immigration

    Shabana Mahmood holds a red folder while arriving at 10 Downing Street for a cabinet meeting.
  • Wednesday, 15 October, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s big blind spot in UK immigration policy

    To make it seem tough on legal routes, the government introduces radical measures with uncertain effects

    Two construction workers in safety vests and helmets build a brick wall at a residential construction site.
  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    Migrant who threatened Farage sentenced to 5 years in prison

    Afghan national Fayaz Khan threatened to kill Reform leader in a TikTok video

    Nigel Farage on the left in a suit and tie, and Fayaz Khan on the right wearing a headscarf and scarf, with face markings.
  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    UK toughens English language rules for immigrants

    Visa applicants will need to achieve A-level standard from January

    Travellers queue at immigration and passport control beneath a large ‘UK Border’ sign at Heathrow airport’s Terminal 2
  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    UK universities
    Student passports shared online by overseas recruitment agencies

    FT analysis reveals potential breach of UK rules over handling of personal data

    Generic passport and students during a graduation ceremony at Loughborough University, in Loughborough.
  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    Legal services
    US and UK immigration lawyers enjoy boomtime

    Legal firms are overwhelmed with enquiries from companies and individuals after Trump and Starmer harden policies

    Lawyers are busy as President Donald Trump’s administration steps up deportations
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