Home Office

A British minister said Albanian children are prominent among migrant youngsters who have gone missing from hostels and hotels run by the Home Office - the UK equivalent to the Interior Ministry.

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick told MPs that of 4,600 child asylum seekers who had arrived in the UK since 2021, 440 had gone missing and only about half had returned.

The British government has ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. WikiLeaks said it would appeal.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) remarked the statistical data published in the British press regarding the controls of the British border authorities, which would mainly target Romanian citizens, and requested clarifications at the Home Office level through the Romanian Embassy in London.

Thousands of EU citizens who left the UK temporarily because of the coronavirus pandemic are set to lose their long-term right to stay in Britain under Home Office rules.

The government has granted settled status to 4.3 million European Union citizens since it voted to leave the EU.

Romanians living in the UK, approximately 700,000, represent 1 percent of the British population, and this community will bring the two nations closer together, British Ambassador in Bucharest Andrew Noble says in an interview to AGERPRES.

Britain's highest appeals court on Tuesday refused to overturn a High Court judgment restricting the rights of some Turkish businesspeople who set up businesses in the U.K.
The case concerns the rights of Turkish businesspeople who lost some of their rights under a 2018 Home Office decision.

Turks staying in the U.K on the Ankara Agreement visa are in dire condition due to an ambiguity in the routine agreement guideline published by the Home Office, a solicitor and visa holders have told Hürriyet Daily News.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is shocked by the news of 39 bodies found in a truck in Essex east of London, Reuters reported.

Britain will immediately suspend the freedom of movement for European Union people after Brexit on October 31st.

"Freedom of movement as it currently stands will end on October 31 when the UK leaves the EU.

"So, for example, we will introduce, immediately, much tougher criminality rules for people entering the UK."

Britain has granted permanent residency to a group of refugees who have been stranded for 20 years on a UK military base in Cyprus.

The Leigh Day law firm that represents the refugees said Monday that the government settled the case involving 31 members of six families just before it was to be heard by the Supreme Court.