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    the operational arm of the Home Office, Immigration and Nationality Directorate. The UK Immigration Service was, until its disbandment in 2007, responsible...
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  • the country's naturalization and immigration system. It is a successor to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which was dissolved by the...
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  • UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) is a division of the Home Office responsible for the United Kingdom's visa system. It was formed in 2013 from the section...
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    of the Home Office that was superseded by UK Visas and Immigration, Border Force and Immigration Enforcement in April 2013. It was formed as an executive...
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  • House. The Immigration Branch at ports of entry was retitled the Immigration Service. The Immigration Act 1971 gave right of abode in the UK to those it...
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  • Since 1945, immigration to the United Kingdom, controlled by British immigration law and to an extent by British nationality law, has been significant...
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    Home Office (redirect from UK Home Office)
    Immigration Enforcement – responsible for enforcing immigration law in the UK. UK Visas and Immigration – processes visa, asylum, and citizenship applications...
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  • offenders and suspected immigration offenders within the UK. The wider history of UK immigration control is dealt with under UK immigration control - history...
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  • Immigration Enforcement (IE) is a law enforcement command within the Home Office, responsible for enforcing immigration law across the United Kingdom...
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  • The Immigration Advisory Service was a British charity, in existence from 1993 until 2011. The former Immigration Advisory Service was a UK organisation...
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  • An immigration officer is a law enforcement official whose job is to ensure that immigration legislation is enforced. This can cover the rules of entry...
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  • the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) is the United Kingdom regulator of the immigration advice industry whose powers stem from the Immigration and...
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  • within the UK to detect illegal workers and highlights the work of entry clearance officers at British Missions overseas. UK Immigration Service Nothing...
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    Border Force (redirect from UK Border Force)
    Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. Border Force officers can hold the powers of both customs officers and immigration officers. Their duties also...
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  • Immigration detention in the United Kingdom is the practice of detaining foreign nationals for the purpose of immigration control. Unlike some other countries...
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    Common Travel Area (category Immigration to the United Kingdom)
    only) British citizens from immigration control. In July 2008, the UK Border Agency (the predecessor of UK Visas and Immigration) published a consultation...
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  • became the UK Immigration Service, but was disbanded in 2007. The Immigration and Nationality Directorate became the Border and Immigration Agency in 2007...
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    Mullan took part in a 2006 occupation of the Glasgow offices of the UK Immigration Service, protesting against the UKIS's "dawn raid" tactics when deporting...
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    destination country do not fall under the definition of immigration or migration; seasonal labour immigration is sometimes included, however. As for economic...
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  • Migration Watch UK, is a think-tank opposed to immigration. Migration Watch UK has criticised the Home Office figures for not including the UK-born dependent...
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    which the UK has reciprocal arrangements also qualify for free treatment. Since 6 April 2015, non-EEA nationals who are subject to immigration control must...
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  • issue of certificates of entitlement to the right of abode. The UK Immigration Service had its headquarters in Croydon and was responsible for controlling...
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    The Immigration Department of the Government of Hong Kong is responsible for immigration control of Hong Kong. After the People's Republic of China assumed...
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  • Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), who are granted such authority through the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). Immigration detainees may...
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  • Immigration law includes the national statutes, regulations, and legal precedents governing immigration into and deportation from a country. Strictly...
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    stance against illegal immigration. Politics portal United Kingdom portal Africa portal Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 Asylum seekers...
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    Border Control in the UK Immigration Service between 2005 and 2007 and Head of Ports and Border Management in Citizenship and Immigration Canada between 2000...
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  • following the passing of the Identity Cards Act 2006, which merged the UK Passport Service with the Home Office's Identity Cards programme to form a new executive...
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  • Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of that country's immigration laws, or the continuous residence in a country...
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  • Immigration policies of the United Kingdom are the areas of modern British policy concerned with the immigration system of the United Kingdom—primarily...
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