Tag: UK Border Force

• Saturday, April 16th 2022 - 08:51 UTC

  Royal Navy will be responsible for patrolling intercepting boats with migrants

  

  The Royal Navy is taking over operational command from Border Force in the English Channel. The service will be responsible for intercepting boats carrying migrants. The decision follows the understanding with Rwanda to have migrants arriving in boats to UK, sent to the African country.

• Thursday, October 7th 2021 - 23:51 UTC

  Entire Mercosur out of Britain's travel red group, which is now focused solely on other LatAm nations

  

  The United Kingdom has removed 47 destinations from its travel red list, which has been narrowed down to just seven nations, all of them within Latin America and four from South America, it was announced Thursday.

• Monday, October 4th 2021 - 18:42 UTC

  Arrival into UK made easier: it's all about country of origin being on red list or not

  

  The United Kingdom has launched a simplified system regarding the processing of arriving passengers effective Monday, Oct. 4. Following long queues and no practical improvement, British authorities have decided that arriving travelers are to be measured as coming from a country within the red list... or not.

• Sunday, September 5th 2021 - 06:53 UTC

  Heathrow chaos: Huge crowds overwhelm understaffed airport

  

  Some Heathrow passengers were reporting absolutely absurd queue times due to a Border Force staff shortage which kept travelers waiting in lines for five hours.

• Tuesday, February 19th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  UK Border Force nets 34 migrants in a boat in the Channel

  

  A group of 34 migrants have been brought ashore after the UK Border Force intercepted a boat in the Channel. The group of people, whose nationalities are not yet known, were brought to shore at Dover by a coastal patrol vessel and given blankets.

• Friday, June 15th 2018 - 07:22 UTC

  Lord West claims Royal Navy does not have enough vessels to look after the EEZ

  

  The former head of the Royal Navy has warned of a developing negative situation over the number of ships available to patrol Britain’s coastal waters post-Brexit. Labour’s Lord West of Spithead told the Lords at question time there were not enough vessels to look after the inshore waters and the exclusive economic zone.