Deportation, removals and curtailment

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Services

• Find an immigration removal centre

  Immigration removal centres - addresses, contact details, visiting hours.

• Voluntary Returns Service: awareness materials

  Order materials designed to raise awareness of the Voluntary Returns Service for those who may need help to return home.

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Guidance and regulation

• Immigration status and enforcement action: caseworker guidance
  • Guidance
  • 24 December 2024
  • UK Visas and Immigration
• Deporting foreign nationals on conducive grounds: caseworker guidance
  • Guidance
  • 27 December 2024
  • UK Visas and Immigration
• Returning to your home country voluntarily: how the service works
  • Guidance
  • 25 July 2024
  • Home Office
• Voluntary Returns Service (VRS) stories of return
  • Guidance
  • 8 August 2023
  • Home Office
• Returns preparation: caseworker guidance
  • Guidance
  • 13 May 2024
  • UK Visas and Immigration

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News and communications

• UK and Bangladesh sign agreement to tackle illegal migration
  • 16 May 2024
  • Home Office
  • News story
• Two members reappointed to the Independent Family Returns Panel
  • 4 March 2024
  • Independent Family Returns Panel
  • News story
• Independent Family Returns Panel chair reappointed
  • 22 February 2024
  • Independent Family Returns Panel
  • News story
• Over 320 foreign criminals and immigration offenders returned
  • 8 March 2023
  • Home Office
  • News story
• Foreign criminals and illegal entrants to the UK removed to Albania
  • 2 September 2022
  • Home Office
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Detention summary: previous data tables
  • 27 February 2025
  • Home Office
  • Statistical data set
• Returns summary: previous data tables
  • 27 February 2025
  • Home Office
  • Statistical data set
• Ukraine visa schemes summary: previous data tables
  • 27 February 2025
  • Home Office
  • Statistical data set
• Asylum and resettlement summary: previous data tables
  • 27 February 2025
  • Home Office
  • Statistical data set
• GPS expansion pilot evaluation
  • 13 January 2025
  • Home Office
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Response to an inspection of operations to effect the removal of FNOs
  • 29 June 2023
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Response to a report on the family returns process for 2016 to 2018
  • 18 December 2018
  • UK Visas and Immigration, Independent Family Returns Panel, and Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Government response to the report on Deportation with Assurances (DWA)
  • 10 October 2018
  • Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Home Office response to a report on the re-inspection of the Tier 4 curtailment process
  • 12 July 2017
  • UK Visas and Immigration and Home Office
  • Policy paper
• Home Office response to the report on a short notice inspection of the Tier 4 curtailment process
  • 23 March 2016
  • UK Visas and Immigration
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Returns from the UK and illegal working activity since July 2024
  • 31 March 2025
  • Home Office
  • Transparency
• Country returns guide
  • 7 May 2024
  • UK Visas and Immigration and Home Office
  • Transparency
• Flight returns data posted on X (formerly Twitter)
  • 10 January 2024
  • Home Office
  • Transparency
• Immigration Enforcement data: August 2016
  • 25 August 2016
  • UK Visas and Immigration
  • Transparency
• Training provided to immigration removal centre doctors on Rule 35
  • 5 January 2015
  • Home Office and Immigration Enforcement
  • Foi release

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Organisations

• Home Office
• UK Visas and Immigration
• Immigration Enforcement
• Independent Family Returns Panel
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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• Border Force