Campaign groups are in a High Court battle with the Home Office aimed at blocking a deportation flight to Rwanda, but the PM is determined it will go ahead.

Five migrants avoid Rwanda deportation but PM still hopeful for Tuesday flight

Rescue operations have been under way off the coast of Kent as lifeboat crews and Border Force responded to a flurry of small boats.

Children wrapped in blankets helped ashore at Dover after Channel crossings

The newly-formed Migration and Population Review Panel will make recommendations on the Chief Minister's proposals.

Jersey's migration plans to be scrutinised

There will be two main working visa routes for people requiring immigration permission from 2021 - skilled workers and nine month temporary workers.

EU nationals will require a visa to work, study or live in Jersey from next year

migrants arrive in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, aboard two military ships after being transferred from the island of Lampedusa. Sicily's governor has ordered all migrants to be transferred from the island by Monday, part of push-back by Italian regions alarmed by last week's surge in COVID-19 cases. On Saturday, Italy registered 1,071 new cases, the highest daily number since mid-May, and only weeks after the nation had seen the number of day-to-day new infections plunge to about 200. (Fabio Peonia/LaPresse via AP)

The UN is calling for 400 migrants stuck across three boats in the Mediterranean to be taken safely to dry land. 

UN calls for help for migrants stuck on boats as islanders protest

The Migration Advisory Committee has recommended how the government should implement its points-based immigration system. 

Points-based immigration: 'Salary threshold should be cut by £4,400'

Three years on from the Brexit vote, it might seem odd that the issue hasn’t merited much of a mention in this election, writes John Ray.

Why immigration policy has taken a back seat in the General Election

New laws will make it harder for migrants to come to the US and seek asylum via the southern border. 

Meet the migrants crossing the US border as Trump bids to tighten asylum rules

Net migration from the EU fell by 75,000 in the year to September, leaving it at its lowest level in five years.


Net migration at lowest level in five years

Net long-term migration was 230,000 in the year to the end of June 2017- a fall of more than 100,000 on the previous year, the ONS said.

Net migration fell by 106,000 in year after Brexit vote

A 22-year-old South African-born man who has lived in the UK since he was three, has been told he is an "overstayer".

Man could be deported despite living in UK for 19 years

Long-term migration to the UK fell by 84,000 in 2016 compared to a year earlier, new statistics show.

UK net migration down 'significantly' by 84,000 in 2016

The Government can control migration from outside the EU and it is the same as that from the EU, a major reason for the Brexit vote.

Immigration as high from outside EU as from within it

Net migration to Britain was down 49,000 in the year to September 2016, the lowest level in more than two years.

Net migration falls 49,000 to lowest level in two years

How states have responded to the biggest migration crisis since World War Two and some of the key figures' responses on the issue.

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