カテゴリー: Home Office
University asks home secretary to intervene in move that would deprive him of scholarship and teaching rolesA Chevening academic will be forced to give up a doctorate, a scholarship and teaching roles under Home Office plans to uproot Afghan refugees f…
Exclusive: Letter to home secretary says bill echoes ‘dangerously broad laws’ that result in jailing of protestersHongkongers in Britain have called on Suella Braverman to reconsider controversial measures in her public order bill, which they likened t…
Those who risked their lives helping British government face a ‘toxic combination of incompetence and indifference’Afghan nationals who were promised resettlement to the UK nearly a year ago are facing torture and death while they wait for a response f…
Mayooran Thangaratnam fled Sri Lanka for the UK in 2003 after brutal murder of his father but was repeatedly refused asylum A refugee who was wrongly recorded as being a child murderer by the Home Office says delays in his case have led to him wasting …
Lawyers say the woman, who is in hiding in Pakistan with her son, will be killed if sent back to AfghanistanA female former senior judge from Afghanistan who is in hiding from the Taliban with her son has filed an appeal to the Home Office after her ap…
MoD sources accuse other parts of Whitehall of failing to do enough to help Afghans who worked with British forcesTwo RAF flights carrying as many as 500 Afghans who worked with British forces and their relatives are landing in the UK each month from P…
A year after the fall of Kabul, Abdullah Sayyid is in hiding, his wife has been murdered and the Home Office seems to have lost his case fileAbdullah Sayyid often thinks about the moment the Taliban broke down his door, burst inside and shot his wife. …
Home Office accused of failing to ensure safety of thousands including teachers and translatorsThousands of Afghans who worked for the UK have been abandoned and remain at risk from the Taliban a year after the evacuation from Kabul, a coalition of hum…
Home Office accused of leaving mothers and traumatised children stranded for months while priority is given to Ukraine refugeesBritish couples who travelled to Pakistan to adopt children have been left stranded after the Home Office told them to expect…
Jakki Moxham reflects on the experience of a family who came to Britain last year, and the systemic failures of Operation Warm WelcomeI read your feature with great interest (Welcome to Britain … now what? Afghan families on their lives in limbo, 26 Ma…
As war in Ukraine creates millions of new refugees, many people airlifted to safety from Kabul last summer are still stuck in UK hotels. We spent six months following three families as they adjust to life in their new homeIn late September 2021, Firas,…
Abu Zubaydah, tortured at CIA ‘black sites’ in six different countries, has right to sue UK governmentUK intelligence services who allegedly asked the CIA to put questions to a detainee who was being tortured in “black sites” were subject to the law of…
Minister admits there is no way to move some refugees on without losing government support‘Doesn’t seem possible’: Londoner who wants to house Afghan refugeesThousands of Afghans rescued from the Taliban remain stuck in UK hotels, after a minister admi…
Ponnampalam Jothibala, who came to the UK in 1983, granted indefinite leave to remain by Home OfficeA man who came to the UK to train as an accountant almost 40 years ago and was left homeless after a catalogue of Home Office delays has finally been gr…
Rejection of men’s claims was against UK guidance not to force returns to Afghanistan and YemenThe Home Office has told asylum seekers from some of the world’s biggest conflict zones that it is safe for them to return there, the Guardian has learned.A …