- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
THE Home Office is to suspend immigration checks on thousands of bank accounts following the Windrush scandal. The department is contacting banks and building societies to instruct them to reduce the scope of the investigations. Since January, banks have been required to conduct quarterly checks on 70 million UK current accounts. If an account is suspected of being used by an illegal immigrant, the Home Office reviews it before instructing the bank to act including shutting it down. The Home Office said it did not publish data on the number of bank accounts already closed under the measures. It comes…
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