the Home Office
noun
British
: the department in the British government that deals with the law, the police, and prisons, and that decides which people can come into the country
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For six years, May had toiled away at the Home Office (a notorious graveyard for politicians over the previous decade).
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Douglas Murray, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2016
Its membership includes the Home Office (the U.K. version of Homeland Security), the Metropolitan Police and the Royal Household.
—Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
In the wake of the murders, the Home Office is now weighing whether tougher crossbow laws should be enacted, the BBC reported.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
That legislation, the Safety of Rwanda Act, passed Parliament in late April and unilaterally declared Rwanda to be a safe place to resettle migrants, paving the way for King Charles’s approval and the Home Office’s moves to detain some migrants who arrived by irregular routes.
—Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 4 May 2024
The ruling means the Home Office has 28 days to update its policies around GPS tracking.
—Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
In response, the government committed to reducing immigration detention, closed three centers, and in 2019, the Home Office and U.N. refugee agency began a series of programs to test alternative approaches.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
The idea that the Home Office would retroactively revoke his citizenship seems implausible, to say the least.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 15 July 2022
According to separate statistics from the Home Office for the year ending March 2023, cited by The Daily Telegraph, more than 343,000 visas were issued to people from India, more than 200,000 to those from Ukraine, and almost 180,000 to those from Nigeria.
—Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
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Douglas Murray, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2016
Its membership includes the Home Office (the U.K. version of Homeland Security), the Metropolitan Police and the Royal Household.
—Erin Hill, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
In the wake of the murders, the Home Office is now weighing whether tougher crossbow laws should be enacted, the BBC reported.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
That legislation, the Safety of Rwanda Act, passed Parliament in late April and unilaterally declared Rwanda to be a safe place to resettle migrants, paving the way for King Charles’s approval and the Home Office’s moves to detain some migrants who arrived by irregular routes.
—Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 4 May 2024
The ruling means the Home Office has 28 days to update its policies around GPS tracking.
—Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
In response, the government committed to reducing immigration detention, closed three centers, and in 2019, the Home Office and U.N. refugee agency began a series of programs to test alternative approaches.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
The idea that the Home Office would retroactively revoke his citizenship seems implausible, to say the least.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 15 July 2022
According to separate statistics from the Home Office for the year ending March 2023, cited by The Daily Telegraph, more than 343,000 visas were issued to people from India, more than 200,000 to those from Ukraine, and almost 180,000 to those from Nigeria.
—Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
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