New Home Office guidance states that citizenship applications from people who arrived in the UK by 'dangerous' routes will ...

Almost 37,000 people crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2024. The government has announced measures to tackle people smuggling, including a new criminal offence of endangering the lives ...

Smugglers have ferried more than 150,000 migrants across the English Channel since Government records began in 2018 – most often in inflatable “small boats ... Since 2018, more people have come from ...

The current record is Sep 3 2022, when 1,305 migrants crossed the Channel on 27 small boats. More than 1,000 people have made the journey on eight days so far, almost all of them in that year.

People who promote crossings ... In one recent example, Amanj Hasan Zada was jailed for 17 years for organising small boat ...