LIVE: Shabana Mahmood to Announce Major Immigration Reform
November 17, 2025
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4:42:34Now PlayingLIVE: Shabana Mahmood to Announce Major Immigration Reform
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as posted by the channelThe first countries to face UK visa bans as punishment for refusing to take back illegal migrants will be announced on Monday by Shabana Mahmood as part of wide-ranging measures to dramatically increase deportations. The home secretary will also propose an overhaul of human rights laws that will restrict illegal migrants to a single appeal against their removal and significantly limit their ability to use family rights enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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The changes are a significant escalation of the action against illegal immigration after 16 months in which small boat crossings have surged. More than 39,000 people have arrived this year.
They are the first countries to be formally threatened with the visa bans and their governments will have a month to start co-operating before a sliding scale of sanctions are imposed. Mahmood formally issued the threat of visa bans on Thursday by writing to the countries’ embassies in London, Home Office sources said.
The Home Office said the three African countries were the most “obstructive” in refusing to take back their citizens and the bans would act as an opening salvo to show other countries that Mahmood was prepared to extend visa bans to other countries.
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