News story: New UK Visa and Citizenship Application Services centres open
It will be easier and more convenient to apply for citizenship or to stay in the UK for study or work.
It will be easier and more convenient to apply for citizenship or to stay in the UK for study or work.
Millions more people will be able to use ePassport gates as they arrive in the UK, under plans announced in the Budget on 29 October 2018.
Grant funding of up to £9 million will be available to ensure EU citizens needing additional support get help in obtaining their settled status.
The consultation for the Windrush compensation scheme will now close on 16 November 2018 to ensure that everyone who wants to is able to contribute.
The second phase will include staff in the higher education, health and social care sectors.
The Home Secretary has proposed reforms to British citizenship including tougher English language requirements and changes to the Life in the UK test.
More than 2,000 members of the Windrush generation have been granted citizenship free of charge, the Home Office has confirmed.
The government has announced a new form of leave for children transferred to the UK to reunite with their families during the Calais camp clearance in 2016.
The Home Secretary is to provide a formal apology to 18 members of the Windrush generation who it is believed could have been wrongfully removed or detained.
Innovative reforms to immigration detention in the UK were announced by the Home Secretary Sajid Javid today, Tuesday 24 July.