Resource Type: Removals, Detention and Offences

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association Working Group on Removals, Detention and Offences

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Returns preparation: caseworker guidance (5 March 2026).  

Added Enhanced Voluntary Returns offer pilot: interim guidance.

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Average cost of an Immigration Enforcement return FY 2024 to 2025 (9 March 2026).  

First published and added to Migration research and analysis.

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Illegal working and enforcement activity to the end of December 2025 (12 January 2026).

First published and added to Returns from the UK and enforcement activity.

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Reception and induction checklist and supplementary guidance (12 January 2026).

Annex F updated.

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Restricted leave: caseworker guidance (5 January 2026). 

Updated section on conditions to impose on a grant of leave, to reflect commencement of provisions in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025. Updated section on breach of […]

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Country returns guide (29 December 2025). 

Updated.

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Managing property of detainees in the UK (19 December 2025).

Guidance updated with the following: updated reference to section 51 of the Immigration Act 2016, as amended by section 44 of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025.

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Use of force for adults in detention (19 December 2025). 

Updated to update a reference to Section 51 of the Immigration Act 2016, as amended by section 44 of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025.

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Live facial recognition in Immigration Enforcement (19 December 2025).

Information updated.