Exclusive: Names, photos and migration status being mixed up, preventing people applying for jobs and housing
• ‘Their system is broken’: the people caught up in IT chaos
Major flaws in a huge Home Office immigration database have resulted in more than 76,000 people being listed with incorrect names, photographs or immigration status.
Leaked internal documents reveal the scale of the database fiasco at the Home Office, which has recently been criticised for delays in immigration application processing, long queues at borders and the distribution of incorrect identity cards.
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