The Home Office has published an enactment impact assessment for the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (BSAIA 2025), setting out the expected impacts of legislation intended to strengthen UK border security, tackle organised immigration crime and improve the asylum and immigration system. The assessment reflects amendments made during the Bill’s passage through Parliament and updated evidence available since its introduction and follows an earlier impact assessment on the right to work provisions in BSAIA 2025 published in May 2025.

The Home Office has published an independent end-to-end review of online knife sales, conducted by Commander Steve Clayman. The review was commissioned in response to a rise in knife-related violent and sexual offences recorded by police forces in England and Wales between 2020 and 2024. Despite new legislation limiting the availability of larger and more dangerous knives, technological advancements and globalisation have facilitated access to online knife markets. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the online sales process, both domestically and internationally, and offers recommendations for enhancing current practices. The review incorporates input from key stakeholders across various sectors and aims to address the growing threat posed by the online availability of knives.

The Home Office has published information on the Ukraine Permission Extension scheme, which will provide an additional 18 months of permission to remain in the UK to eligible applicants, and the same entitlements as other Ukraine schemes to access work, benefits, healthcare and education. The scheme will be free to apply for and will be available to those who have come to the UK on the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme, the Ukraine Family Scheme or the Ukraine Extension Scheme. It may also be available to persons who can had previous leave under a Ukraine scheme, but now hold leave in another route. Applications will open from early 2025.

The Home Office has published transparency data on disruptions under the Marriage and Civil Partnership Referral and Investigation Scheme for the period 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025. Introduced under the Immigration Act 2014, the scheme allows registrars to refer proposed marriages and civil partnerships to the Home Office where a non-settled person might gain an immigration advantage and there are indicators of a non-genuine relationship.

The Home Office has published new caseworker guidance on when and how limited leave granted under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) may be cancelled or curtailed, setting out the legal grounds, decision-making framework, and key safeguards, including the ‘minded to cancel or curtail’ process, proportionality assessment, and the approach to identifying excess absences from the UK, and considering permanent family breakdown.

The Home Office has published a new guidance document for caseworkers on revoking deportation orders. This covers the grounds and effects of deportation orders, considering requests for revocation, representations made before a person is deported, procedure on decision to revoke and allowed appeals.

The Home Office has updated its guidance page ‘Online immigration status (eVisa)’, to provide more information about how people with biometric residence permits, biometric residence cards and other types of physical document (including indefinite leave endorsed in a passport) will be able to move to digital immigration status. This is in preparation for the anticipated full switch to digital status at the end of 2024.

The Home Office has published two series of ‘how-to’ videos to assist users in accessing and using various aspects of immigration services. These are eVisa support videos (as regards accessing and using an eVisa), viewing and confirming a person’s right to work and rent, and applying for settled status from pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.

The Home Office has published a new version of its ‘Immigration Health Surcharge: caseworker guidance’ which tells caseworkers about the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) and how to consider the IHS as part of an application for immigration permission. The guidance has been updated to provide information about the IHS rates in place from 6 February 2024 and reflects the changes set out in the Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2024, in addition to changes throughout. Although the guidance says that it is version 7.0, it appears to be the first time that it has been made publicly available.

The Home Office has published its response to the consultation on codes of practice under the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024, alongside revised draft codes. The outcome, includes three new codes of practice covering bulk personal datasets and notices regime, plus updates to five existing codes on communications data, equipment interference and interception. The consultation ran from 8 October 2024 to 6 January 2025 and introduced new regulations for notification notices, review periods and technical advisory board procedures.

The Home Office has published the government's response and outcome of the consultation on ‘Changes to bodies granted investigatory and other powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002’ (POCA 2002). Following the consultation, the Home Office has decided to grant Accredited Financial Investigators (AFI) powers to the Security Industry Authority, Food Standards Agency, Environment Agency, Public Sector Fraud Authority and Department for Work and Pensions. The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (References to Financial Investigators) (England and Wales and Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2024, SI 2024/425 brings these changes into effect, with the Order in force from 26 April 2024.

The Home Office has published the government's plan to continue to tackle retail crime. The plan builds on the Retail Crime Action plan and includes details of what has already been done and a breakdown of future plans covering five themes. The government plans to impose a new offence for assaults on retail workers, expand the use of electronic monitoring, make greater use of facial recognition, designing out crime by reducing opportunities to steal and sell stolen goods and make crime reporting easier.