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An exterior of Lunar House, the headquarters of 'UK Visas and Immigration', a division of the Home Office on Wellesley Road, Croydon (photo credit: Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images)
An exterior of Lunar House, the headquarters of 'UK Visas and Immigration', a division of the Home Office on Wellesley Road, Croydon (photo credit: Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Home Office failings in terms of citizenship, immigration and asylum rights in the UK are more exposed than ever.

The injustices of Home Office systems are not limited to Windrush. In order to secure the dignity and rights of the people affected by these systems, things need to be different.

The right to asylum

Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy asylum from persecution in other countries. And providing asylum is a responsibility shared by all countries.

Six steps to a human rights respecting Home Office

Human rights respecting immigration and asylum systems are necessary to ensure the rights of many women, men and children are protected. These systems aren't currently working.
Q&A

Deportation powers

One human rights concern is that the Home Office uses its deportation powers to exile people born in this country who have never lived anywhere else and have rights to this country’s citizenship. So who can the Home Office deport and who is affected?

UK: Channel crossing deaths highlight Government's 'callous attitude' to refugees

Today is an utterly bleak day for people seeking asylum in the UK.

UK: Passing of Rwanda bill is a 'national disgrace'

Today will leave a stain on this country’s moral reputation.

UK: Government has trapped people in an 'asylum vortex' causing multiple harms - new briefing

Government’s three-year long refusal to process asylum claims is at root of serious problems with the asylum system 

UK: Ministers must 'stop threatening' people seeking asylum after another Channel crossing tragedy

The reason people attempt these dangerous journeys is the absence of safe alternatives to escape the miserable and unsafe conditions in which they are caught

UK: Immigration statistics reveal 'abject failure' of Government asylum policy

New Home Office quarterly statistics published hours after two people die crossing the Channel

UK: Ministers must 'face up to reality' and set up safe asylum routes after Channel crossing tragedy

We are heartbroken by this loss of life and our immediate thoughts are with the family and friends who have lost their loved ones.

UK: Government must now 'draw a line' under disgraceful Rwanda scheme

The Government should make policies which fit with the law, not fit the law around their policies

UK: Government's Prevent Duty 'fundamentally incompatible' with human rights - major new report

Nearly one in three referrals for children under 15, with one child referred after joking he hoped school would burn down during fire drill

UK: Latest immigration figures reveal 'disgraceful' asylum backlog

Draconian asylum policies set to add to mounting case backlog, with new law preventing new claims from being processed 

UK: Bibby Stockholm is 'utterly shameful' way to treat people seeking asylum

Housing people on a floating barge is likely to be re-traumatising

UK: Passing of migration bill is 'bleak day for human rights'

Disqualifying people’s asylum claims en masse regardless of the strength of their case is a blatant assault on international law and is a failure of UK leadership.

UK: Scrapping of Government's 'shameful' Rwanda scheme is welcome

The Government should now completely abandon the Rwanda deal - and any others like it

UK: Letter to House of Lords denounces 'racist and xenophobic' Immigration Bill

Highly controversial bill will deprive people of right to seek asylum in the UK

UK: PM should not pander to extremist ministers by ignoring ECHR decisions in the Immigration Bill

Ignoring court injunctions whenever the Government feels like it would violate the rule of law and this proposal should be abandoned immediately.

UK: Plan to house people seeking asylum on a barge is 'ministerial cruelty' 

Along with the disastrous Rwanda scheme, all talk of barges, cruise ships and former military barracks should be abandoned.

UK: Home Office plans to house asylum seekers in barges is 'dismal'

The Government wrecked the asylum system by choosing to stop or delay making decisions on thousands of people’s asylum claims

UK/France: New deal to prevent people crossing the Channel is 'heartless and anti-refugee'

Seeking asylum is a vital human right, not something that can be banned or withdrawn for political convenience.

UK: Asylum questionnaire is 'too little, too late'

New Home Office statistics show asylum claims backlog topping 160,000