Home Office hopes automatic data-sharing will ‘reduce need to evidence immigration status’

Home Office hopes automatic data-sharing will ‘reduce need to evidence immigration status’

Minister indicates that, by allowing systems across the health service and Whitehall agencies to better integrate and swap information, the home affairs department would be able to automatically confirm status The Home Office is working to support data sharing that would enable public bodies to automatically verify a person’s immigration status – reducing the need for service users to provide evidence, according to a minister. In the latest of a…