UK Immigration News: Weekly Digest
Compiled automatically each week from four official sources: gov.uk publications, Parliament written answers, Upper Tribunal (IAC) judgments and parliamentary petitions. No editorial commentary: titles, dates and links only. Generated 15 July 2026, 12:52.
Week 2026-W29 (13 July to 19 July 2026):
18 new or updated official publications,
7 parliamentary questions answered,
0 Upper Tribunal (IAC) judgments published, and
5 open petitions tracked.
Official publications
18
Written answers
7
UT (IAC) judgments
0
Petitions tracked
5
Top petition signatures
14,056
Sources reporting
4/4
New official publications
New and substantively updated gov.uk pages from the last 7 days matching five fixed searches (deportation, "immigration enforcement", asylum, "small boats", removals), limited to immigration-relevant titles and publishers. A "published or updated" date is gov.uk's public timestamp, which also moves when an existing page is substantively revised.
| Date | Publication |
|---|---|
| 15 July 2026 | Small boat activity in the English Channel, published or updated 15 July 2026 (transparency). Home Office. |
| 15 July 2026 | Bangladesh: Knowledge Base profile, published or updated 15 July 2026 (guidance). HM Passport Office. |
| 15 July 2026 | British Sign Language (BSL) 5-year plan: Home Office, published or updated 15 July 2026 (policy paper). Home Office. |
| 14 July 2026 | Global Business Mobility routes caseworker guidance, published or updated 14 July 2026 (guidance). Home Office. |
| 14 July 2026 | IAA registration explained, published or updated 14 July 2026 (guidance). Immigration Advice Authority. |
| 14 July 2026 | About us, published or updated 14 July 2026 (about). Border Security Command. |
| 13 July 2026 | Immigration and Asylum Bill: second reading opening speech, published or updated 13 July 2026 (oral statement). Home Office. |
| 13 July 2026 | National ANPR standards, published or updated 13 July 2026 (guidance). Home Office. |
| 13 July 2026 | Independent Family Returns Panel: 2024 to 2025, published or updated 13 July 2026 (research). Independent Family Returns Panel. |
| 13 July 2026 | China: tuberculosis test clinics for a UK visa, published or updated 13 July 2026 (guidance). UK Visas and Immigration. |
| 13 July 2026 | Diphtheria: migrant health guide, published or updated 13 July 2026 (detailed guide). UK Health Security Agency. |
| 12 July 2026 | Apply for a judicial review in an immigration or asylum case, published or updated 12 July 2026 (detailed guide). HM Courts & Tribunals Service. |
| 12 July 2026 | Appeal an immigration or asylum decision: Form IAFT-1, published or updated 12 July 2026 (form). HM Courts & Tribunals Service. |
| 12 July 2026 | Get help to pay or reduce your visa or immigration appeal fee, published or updated 12 July 2026 (detailed guide). HM Courts & Tribunals Service. |
| 10 July 2026 | Windrush Compensation Scheme: full rules, published or updated 10 July 2026 (guidance). Home Office. |
| 10 July 2026 | Border Security Command, published or updated 10 July 2026 (organisation). Border Security Command. |
| 9 July 2026 | Migration analysis at the Home Office, published or updated 9 July 2026 (document collection). Home Office. |
| 9 July 2026 | Migration statistics, published or updated 9 July 2026 (document collection). Home Office. |
Source: gov.uk search API, last 7 days.
Parliament: written answers
Parliamentary written questions on deportation and removals answered in the last 7 days, from the UK Parliament written questions API. The quoted text is the opening of the member's question; the answer is on the linked Parliament page.
| Answered | Question |
|---|---|
| 14 July 2026 | PQ 16093 answered 14 July 2026 by Home Office: Offenders: Deportation.
“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that foreign national offenders are deported from prison when they eligible for removal.” |
| 14 July 2026 | PQ 14511 answered 14 July 2026 by Home Office: Undocumented Migrants.
“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what methodology was used to estimate the figure of 412,000 illegal migrants in the United Kingdom.” |
| 14 July 2026 | PQ HL1483 answered 14 July 2026 by Home Office: Undocumented Migrants: Northern Ireland.
“To ask His Majesty's Government how many migrants were removed from Northern Ireland in each of the last three years; of those, which ten (1) nationalities, and (2) countries, were most involved; and...” |
| 13 July 2026 | PQ 16629 answered 13 July 2026 by Ministry of Justice: Prisoners: Foreign Nationals.
“To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what was the cost of providing foreign national prisoners with phone credit in the past year.” |
| 13 July 2026 | PQ 15450 answered 13 July 2026 by Home Office: Asylum.
“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK-France 'one-in-one-out' scheme will be ended after the conclusion of the pilot in October, and what assessment her Department has...” |
| 9 July 2026 | PQ 14461 answered 9 July 2026 by Home Office: Offenders: Deportation.
“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) foreign national offenders and (b) immediate family members of foreign national offenders were removed from the UK under the Facilit...” |
| 9 July 2026 | PQ 14460 answered 9 July 2026 by Home Office: Offenders: Deportation.
“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was paid to to (a) foreign national offenders and (b) immediate family members of foreign national offenders removed from the UK under t...” |
Source: UK Parliament written questions and statements API, last 7 days.
Judgments: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
Judgments newly published on The National Archives Find Case Law service in the last 7 days. This site records metadata only (case name, neutral citation, date, link); the judgment text is available on the linked page under the Find Case Law licence.
No new UT (IAC) judgments were published in the last 7 days. Publication is irregular: the tribunal releases reported decisions in batches.
Source: The National Archives, Find Case Law Atom feed (court: ukut/iac), last 7 days.
Petition watch
The five open UK Parliament petitions with the most signatures matching "deportation" or "asylum". Signature counts are a snapshot taken when this digest was generated. Petitions get a government response at 10,000 signatures and are considered for debate at 100,000.
| Signatures | Petition |
|---|---|
| 14,056 | Stop pilot scheme giving up to £40,000 to failed asylum seeker families: 14,056 signatures (open, opened 10 April 2026). |
| 12,982 | Deport all foreign-born criminals & individuals on the terror watchlist: 12,982 signatures (open, opened 27 April 2026). |
| 5,720 | Detain, detect and deport all illegal immigrants: 5,720 signatures (open, opened 26 March 2026). |
| 1,424 | Reinstate study visas for Sudanese students and fully protect their education: 1,424 signatures (open, opened 8 April 2026). |
| 1,263 | Exempt Afghan women from the study-visa suspension and reinstate routes to study: 1,263 signatures (open, opened 8 April 2026). |
Source: petition.parliament.uk API, snapshot at generation time.
What's coming
Next scheduled release: Ministry of Justice, Offender management statistics quarterly (January to March 2026) on 30 July 2026 at 09:30. Full schedule on the release calendar.
Archive
Each week's digest is frozen when it is built and kept unchanged. 2026-W29
Data Limitations & Caveats
- Not a complete record. Coverage is limited to fixed keyword searches (deportation, "immigration enforcement", asylum, "small boats", removals) against four official APIs. Items outside those terms will not appear.
- Automated relevance filter. Because the source APIs match full text, off-topic results (for example greenhouse gas "removals") are excluded by a fixed rule: an item is kept only if its title matches immigration-related terms or it comes from an immigration-relevant publisher. The rule is deterministic and documented in the build script.
- "Published" dates can mean updated. gov.uk's public timestamp also changes when an existing page is substantively revised, so some listed publications are updates rather than first publications.
- Judgment metadata only. Judgment texts are not stored or reproduced here; they are available at Find Case Law under The National Archives' licence terms.
- Petition counts are snapshots. Signature totals are captured at generation time and will differ from the live counts on petition.parliament.uk.
- Weekly snapshots are frozen. Archived weeks are not revised after publication, even if a source later corrects an item.
Sources: gov.uk search API | UK Parliament written questions and statements API | petition.parliament.uk | The National Archives, Find Case Law (Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber).