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The extra bank holiday was billed as a way to celebrate the men's national side reaching the tournament for the first time in almost 30 years. However, the holiday has not been universally adopted by employers.

The United Nations last month described Afghanistan as a graveyard for human rights that enforces gender apartheid using torture and corporal punishment. Women and girls aged over 11 are excluded from education and banned from most forms of paid employment.

If you got British citizenship after settling in the UK under the EU settlement scheme, you can travel to the UK using a valid: passport of your other nationality; [or] national identity card from the EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Switzerland.

"It's like they have brought in a new law and not considered the time people needed to get passports and to change their status ahead of upcoming changes in the rules."

The new fees will help the Home Office to continue to move towards a system that meets its costs through those who use it, reducing reliance on funding from general taxation.

Up to 21,000 asylum seekers who have waited for a year for their claims to be processed could be allowed to enter the jobs market so they can support themselves, the Home Office has said, as part of a package of measures to be announced on Thursday. As the government seeks to empty asylum hotels, claimants who break the law, work illegally or are found to have enough assets to live without support will from June be ejected and lose their support payments.

More than 300,000 children already living in the UK could be forced to wait 10 years for settled status under proposed changes to the Home Office's earned settlement policy, according to an analysis by a centre left thinktank. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found that nearly a quarter (23%) of the 1.35 million people already on routes to settlement are children, most of them dependants on their families' work visas.

The sponsoring partner must meet a minimum income requirement set by immigration rules. That figure is fixed. If income falls short, even slightly, the application can be refused. The difficulty is often not the amount itself, but how it must be shown. Payslips must cover a defined period. Bank statements must match those payslips. Employer letters must confirm details in specific terms.

More than 100,000 people claimed asylum in the UK last year, slightly down on the year before but still significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels, official figures show. Government figures published on Thursday revealed that 100,625 people applied for asylum in 2025, down 4 per cent on 2024. This is more than double the number arriving in the pre-pandemic year 2019, when 45,537 people claimed sanctuary.

Under the rules, dual nationals risk being denied boarding if they do not present a British passport, current or expired, or a certificate of entitlement, costing 589, attached to the passport of their second nationality, to prove their right to enter the UK.

The UK Home Office said in a statement on Tuesday that an 'emergency brake' on visas has been imposed for the first time on nationals from four countries, following a surge in asylum claims by students on study visas. The Home Office said the number of asylum applications by students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan had rocketed by more than 470 percent between 2021 and 2025.

More than 200,000 people living legally in the UK are on the 10-year route to settled status, which requires legal migrants to renew 30-month visas four times at a cost of 3,908.50 including healthcare costs per renewal before they can apply for indefinite leave to remain (ILR). Under proposals by the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, if people have used public funds, even in work, the wait would double to 20 years.

Families have told of flights cancelled to funerals, 80th birthday parties and visits to elderly and dying parents. Young parents who were forced to take out citizenship in the EU because of Brexit, but whose children do not yet have British passports, have also been hit. From Wednesday British dual nationals risk not being allowed to board a plane, ferry or train unless they present a current or expired British passport or a certificate of entitlement costing 589, which takes eight weeks to obtain.

The party's newly-appointed Shadow Chancellor, Robert Jenrick, delivered a keynote speech in London outlining policies aimed at tackling what he described as the "ballooning benefits bill" and the "managed decline" under Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Jenrick said Reform UK would reinstate in-person assessments and require clinical diagnoses to prevent misuse of disability benefits.