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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In 2022, the Helen Bamber Foundation found that out of 1,386 children initially assessed to be adults by the Home Office, 63 percent were later determined to be children by local authorities. Will Coldwell, The Dial, 3 Dec. 2024 Its membership includes the Home Office (the U.K. version of Homeland Security), the Metropolitan Police and the Royal Household. Simon Perry, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024 For six years, May had toiled away at the Home Office (a notorious graveyard for politicians over the previous decade). Douglas Murray, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2016 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

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“The Home Office.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Home%20Office. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.

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