Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: Progress of the bill

The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill will have third reading in the Lords on 17 November 2025 and is due to return to the Commons for consideration of Lords amendments on 19 November.

Changes made in the Commons

Two new clauses proposed by the government were approved at committee stage. They were about ankle tags for migrants with criminal convictions and legal complexity in post-Brexit residence rights.

Four new clauses and several amendments proposed by the government were added to the bill at report stage on 12 May 2025. The new clauses concerned extending right to work checks to businesses hiring people in the gig economy and zero-hours workers; imposing a statutory timeframe for the determination of First-tier Tribunal appeals involving non-detained foreign national offenders and people in receipt of asylum accommodation; and excluding certain sex offenders from protection under the Refugee Convention.

Amendments were made to the clauses providing powers to search, seize and retain electronic devices and to access, copy and use information stored on them, and to provisions about the Immigration Services Commissioner’s powers.

Changes made in the Lords

Committee stage took place in the Lords over six sitting days between June and October 2025. Some government amendments were added to the bill, including measures to extend the powers to search, seize and retain electronic devices to constables from devolved police services and National Crime Agency officers.

The Lords considered the bill at report stage over four sitting days in October and November 2025. Government amendments, including three new clauses, were added to the bill without divisions. The new clauses provide for new offences which would criminalise online advertising of unlawful immigration services. Amendments were made to the offences of supplying or handling articles for use in immigration crime, and to confine the circumstances in which conditions may be attached to limited leave and immigration bail.

A non-government amendment was added to the bill after a division. It would give the Home Secretary a duty to collect and publish data on enforcement action taken against international students who commit criminal offences.