Written Question·Home Office·UIN 103844
Undocumented Migrants: Vetting
Tabled: 7 January 2026
Answered: 16 January 2026
Question
Lee Anderson
Reform UK — Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what vetting her Department undertakes into people who arrived in the UK illegally who subsequently apply for leave to remain.
Answer
Mike TappThe Home Office performs mandatory identity verification and security checks on all individuals applying to enter or remain in the UK. These checks are set out in comprehensive, internal guidance called the UK Visas and Immigration Operating Mandate (OM)....
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