After losing a legal battle to retain the right to remain in the UK, a disabled athlete who has earned Britain five gold medals is set for deportation back to his homeland of Nigeria.
42-year-old power lifter Vincent Onwubiko, from south-east London’s Lewisham, represented Britain at the 1995 and 1997 Stoke Mandeville Games and also at [...]

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There has been massive criticism of the nearly £300,000 in bonus payments made to staff involved in the operation of the UK’s immigration system.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, called the move astonishing given recent revelations concerning the abandonment of many unresolved case files. A review of UK Border Agency files had previously [...]

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The failure of the Labour government to engage effectively on the immigration issue has allowed opponents such as the BNP to grow in strength according to Home Secretary Alan Johnson.
Consequently, Johnson is undertaking a new promotional drive to convince the British public that immigration is a benefit for the UK as his party makes early [...]

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It now seems that the Home Office has announced that cash and aid repatriation packages worth up to £6,000 are to be offered to failed asylum seekers if they choose to voluntarily go back to Zimbabwe. The emigration minister, Phil Woolas, said that the first steps would be taken this autumn towards forcibly returning more [...]

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A total of eight businesses in the Canterbury and Herne bay region have been issued with collective fines of £50,000 after the Home Office slapped the penalties on the companies.
In the latest raid by UK Border Agency officials based on intelligence, ten people were found to be working illegally in the employment of the eight [...]

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It has emerged that the Home Office has lost track of thousands of cases of immigration seekers following the revelation in a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee by the head of the UK Border Agency Lin Homer.
The cases revolved around up to 40,000 migrants who have become illegal citizens following the rejection of [...]

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The Home Office has announced plans to divert more visa applications to its office in Abu Dhabi in site of the massive backlog of over 5,000 Pakistani applications at the centre. The announcement also claimed that recent reports that Pakistani applications would soon return to the Islamabad immigration office were in fact erroneous and that [...]

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A leaked memo is causing embarrassment for the Home Office after it was revealed that authorities may not know the actual whereabouts of tens of thousands of migrants who were told they needed to leave the UK years ago.
Currently immigration staff are desperately working their way through some 40,000 files that date back to before [...]

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