The British government announced restrictions on student visas Tuesday in order to help cut net migration figures, which are expected to be at "record highs" when they are announced Thursday.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced plans to reduce the number of people legally migrating to the UK, calling current levels "too much"
Albanian migrants paid by UK government to return home
The British charity RAMFEL is helping ten families in the UK who are trying to get their unaccompanied child refugee relatives out of Sudan. Eight of the families are Eritrean, and two are Sudanese. InfoMigrants talked to RAMFEL's Head of Campaigns, Nick Beales.
The British government has released new statistics which suggest that the numbers of Modern slavery referrals rose in the first quarter of 2023. Figures from the previous year, which were published in March, also showed a 33% increase compared to the numbers of referrals in 2021.
UK media reported earlier this week that the government might be about to announce a deal whereby they house migrants and asylum seekers on cruise ships while processing their claims. InfoMigrants checked with the port company and council mentioned in the reported plans.
Data obtained by Liberty Investigates and the Observer suggests UK coastguards "effectively ignored" some notifications of migrant boats in the Channel in the weeks preceding a shipwreck in November 2021, where at least 27 died.
The British government is hoping to be given new powers via amendments to the new immigration bill making its way through parliament. This would allow them to deport migrants to places such as Rwanda, even in the face of court injunctions to the contrary.
UK police charged a man with four counts of manslaughter after four migrants died crossing the Channel in December 2022.
The British government has confirmed that it intends to house around 500 male migrants on a floating barge in Portland harbor in southern England.
According to leaked reports across much of the British press, the UK government could be about to announce a deal to house at least 500 migrants on board a barge previously used by the Dutch government for similar purposes.
The New Humanitarian reported that two Sri Lankan asylum seekers, currently staying in a military hospital in Rwanda, have been granted third-country asylum by Britain.