Reform to announce ‘visa freeze’ for some countries if deportees not accepted
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Key Points:
- Reform UK plans to impose visa freezes on countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, and Somalia if they refuse to accept deported migrants with no legal right to stay in Britain, announced by new home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf.
- Proposed policies include automatic home searches for individuals referred to the Prevent counter-terrorism program by three corroborating authorities, expanded stop and search powers, and granting churches immediate listed status to prevent conversion into other places of worship.
- Reform UK also aims to replace indefinite leave to remain with renewable five-year work visas, introduce a dedicated spouse visa, and create a new agency capable of detaining 24,000 migrants simultaneously.
- Yusuf criticized previous governments for failing to control immigration and
