the Home Office
noun
British
: the department in the British government that deals with the law, the police, and prisons, and that decides which people can come into the country
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The ruling means the Home Office has 28 days to update its policies around GPS tracking.
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Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
In response, the government committed to reducing immigration detention, closed three centers, and in 2019, the Home Office and U.N. refugee agency began a series of programs to test alternative approaches.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
The idea that the Home Office would retroactively revoke his citizenship seems implausible, to say the least.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 15 July 2022
According to separate statistics from the Home Office for the year ending March 2023, cited by The Daily Telegraph, more than 343,000 visas were issued to people from India, more than 200,000 to those from Ukraine, and almost 180,000 to those from Nigeria.
—Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
According to separate statistics from the Home Office for the year ending March 2023, cited by The Daily Telegraph, more than 343,000 visas were issued to people from India, more than 200,000 to those from Ukraine and almost 180,000 to those from Nigeria.
—Stephen Castle, New York Times, 25 May 2023
Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
In response, the government committed to reducing immigration detention, closed three centers, and in 2019, the Home Office and U.N. refugee agency began a series of programs to test alternative approaches.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
The idea that the Home Office would retroactively revoke his citizenship seems implausible, to say the least.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 15 July 2022
According to separate statistics from the Home Office for the year ending March 2023, cited by The Daily Telegraph, more than 343,000 visas were issued to people from India, more than 200,000 to those from Ukraine, and almost 180,000 to those from Nigeria.
—Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
According to separate statistics from the Home Office for the year ending March 2023, cited by The Daily Telegraph, more than 343,000 visas were issued to people from India, more than 200,000 to those from Ukraine and almost 180,000 to those from Nigeria.
—Stephen Castle, New York Times, 25 May 2023
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