Staff, in fact, routinely used landing card information as part of their decision-making process, and saw the Windrush landing cards as a useful resource, according to information from two new Home Office whistleblowers. The first group arrived on the ship MV Empire Windrush in June 1948. It requires employers, NHS staff, private landlords and other bodies to demand evidence of people’s citizenship or immigration status. Both Downing Street and the Home Office attempted to play down the significance of the revelation in the Guardian on Tuesday that an archive of landing slips documenting Windrush era arrivals had been destroyed in 2010. The senior ex-Croydon immigration employee was also concerned by worsening Home Office attitudes towards people seeking to regularise their status.

Source: The Guardian April 18, 2018 10:00 UTC