Section 20: Priority removal notices, Nationality and Borders Act 2022

The Secretary of State or an immigration officer may serve a person who is liable to removal or deportation from the United Kingdom with a priority removal notice.

A person who receives such a notice is referred to in this section as the “PRN recipient”.

A priority removal notice is a notice—

requiring the PRN recipient to provide to the Secretary of State (and any other competent authority specified in the notice)—

a statement setting out the matters described in section 120(2)(a) to (c) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (reasons and grounds for application etc),

any relevant status information (within the meaning given by section 58(3)), and

any evidence in support of the matters mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii), and

setting out the date (the “PRN cut-off date”) before which the PRN recipient must comply with that requirement.

The requirement in subsection (3)(a) does not apply in relation to anything that the PRN recipient has previously provided to the Secretary of State or any other competent authority.

Subsection (7) applies if the PRN recipient provides the Secretary of State or any other competent authority with any statement, information or evidence mentioned in subsection (3)(a) on or after the PRN cut-off date.

Subsection (7) also applies if the PRN recipient provides the First-tier Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal (when acting in the circumstances mentioned in section 22(9)) or the Special Immigration Appeals Commission with any statement, information or evidence mentioned in subsection (3)(a) that—

should have been provided in response to the priority removal notice but was not, and

is provided on or after the PRN cut-off date.

The PRN recipient must also provide a statement setting out their reasons for not providing the statement, information or evidence before the PRN cut-off date (and see sections 22 and 26).

For the purposes of this section, a person is “liable to removal or deportation from the United Kingdom” if they are liable to—

removal under section 10 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (removal of persons unlawfully in the United Kingdom), or

deportation under section 3(5) or (6) of the Immigration Act 1971 (deportation of foreign nationals where conducive to the public good or on conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment etc).

In this section “competent authority” has the same meaning as in Part 5 (see section 69).

Section 20: Priority removal notices

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