Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025

Key Points

• Strengthens border security and immigration enforcement powers.
• Reforms asylum processing and eligibility rules.
• Passed through Parliament with large majorities in the Commons; Lords amendments were disagreed with in key votes.
• Affects asylum seekers, migrants, border security staff and employers who rely on migrant workers.

Progress

Having received Royal Assent, the act is now law. It has completed its passage through Parliament.

Voting

Key Commons votes showed broad backing, with second reading 333-109 and third reading 316-95. On Lords amendments, MPs voted to disagree in two motions by large margins (326-92 and 333-264).