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ID card 'rollout delayed until 2012'
ID cards ‘in intensive care’

National identity cards will be given to British citizens two years later than planned, it has emerged. Leaked Home Office documents given to the Conservatives show the planned rollout of ID cards to British citizens has been delayed until 2010. It was originally planned British citizens should be given ID cards from 2010, with foreign… Read more »

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Liam Byrne sets out new immigration targets
Govt fingerprinting all visa applicants

Nearly 500 people have been caught lying about their identity to immigration officials since the government began checking the fingerprints of visa applicants. One person applying for a visa under a Lebanese passport was refused entry to the UK after it was discovered they had early applied for asylum as a Palestinian national. A Zambian… Read more »