Overview
- The Home Office said the man was identified by his biometrics on arrival, detained, and placed into an expedited re-removal process.
- He was among nearly 400 people intercepted in small boats on Remembrance Sunday and brought to Dover.
- This is the second known re-entry since August; an Iranian man who returned on 18 October was flown back to France last week after an earlier removal in September.
- Under the reciprocal scheme so far, 94 people have been removed to France and 57 have been admitted to the UK through safe routes.
- Downing Street called the biometric match evidence the system works, while reports that a previously removed migrant left a Paris shelter before re-crossing have intensified criticism of the policy’s deterrent effect.