UK Home Office

The home office is the primary government department that is in charge of passports, immigration, the drugs policy, counter-terrorism, crime and the police.

This organization - the home office of the United Kingdom is actually headed by a team of five ministers and the main Home Secretary.

Passports and Immigration

There are three divisions within this category:

• Identity and Passport Service division
• Immigration and Asylum
• Visas

This division handled by the Identity and Passport Service division is responsible for the following activities:

• Applications of any new passports from nationals
• Renewal of existing passports for nationals
• Processing of lost or stolen passports
• Changes to name in the passport
• any place that an immigration office may use to conduct his duties
• any airport in the United Kingdom
• in a specifically allocated control zone or any 'supplementary control zone'
• any designated holding facility that is short-term in nature
• police stations
• any hospital in the UK
• a young offender institution
• remand center or prison
• Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre
• Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre
• Gatwick Airport, West Sussex
• Oakington Reception Centre
• Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre
• Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
• Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre
• Lindholme Immigration Removal Centre
• Haslar Immigration Removal Centre
• Dover Immigration Removal Centre
• Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre
• Brook House Immigration Removal Centre
• Any mobile detention facility that may be a vehicle and is adapt for that use

When this particular act was brought in, the Immigration Direction 2008 (Places of Detention) Act was revoked