PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Immigration: Offenders (12 January 2021)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ban foreign criminals who have served more than one year in jail from entering the UK.
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Answer
New Immigration Rules which came into force on 1 December 2020 provide for the mandatory refusal or cancellation of entry clearance or permission to enter or stay in the UK where a person has been convicted of a criminal offence, in the UK or overseas, for which they have received a custodial sentence of 12 months or more.
Answered by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)
18 January 2021
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