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Housing in NI: What are HMOs, how many are there, and who lives in them?
25 August 2026
Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) have recently featured in public and political debate about immigration. Specifically, they have become a topic of discussion around accommodation
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Immigration in NI: How many people are here seeking asylum?
17 June 2026
A horrific attack in North Belfast on 8 June has resulted in a charge of attempted murder for a Sudanese national. The incident received international
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Immigration & Crime: Are people of Somalian descent are more likely to commit crimes than other immigrants to the UK?
12 June 2026
On 9 June 2026 (listen from 31:15) DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley appeared on BBC Radio Ulster’s Talkback show, commenting on a knife attack in Belfast
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Immigration in NI: Home Office response to FactCheckNI’s Freedom of Information Request
15 December 2025
In September, FactCheckNI published a fact check of claims made by DUP MLA Edwin Poots. Some aspects of this claim were rated as “unsubstantiated” due Articles
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Immigration in NI: Does Belfast have the second highest number of asylum seekers in the UK, and do almost a fifth of them live in BT12?
11 September 2025
***Update 12 December 2025: As detailed below, we made a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office regarding the aspect of this fact check
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Explainer: Where were the people who live here born?
4 September 2025
FactCheckNI is planning a short series of articles looking at the demographics of Northern Ireland, examining changes in population age, religion and place of birth.
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Immigration in NI: Does Belfast provide homes to more “illegal migrants” than every other UK city except Glasgow?
28 August 2025
On 21 August, a social media user calling themselves “Basil the Great” claimed in a post on X (formerly Twitter): This isn’t accurate, for several
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Explainer: Who migrates to the UK and what are they entitled to?
9 July 2025
We were prompted to write this explainer after a viral video which featured a man at a demonstration in England making various claims, for example Articles
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Immigration in NI: Did a local bus company recently drop off a “bus load” of migrants in Lisburn? No.
17 June 2025
Immigration in NI: Did a local bus company recently drop off a “bus load” of migrants in Lisburn? No. In a Facebook post on 10 Articles
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What is the scale of immigration into NI?
20 August 2024
On 8 August during an emergency recall debate about racism and violent protests, TUV MLA Timothy Gaston claimed: “I have repeatedly heard it claimed that Articles
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Did the number of asylum applications in the UK peak in 2002?
28 June 2024
In their manifesto for the 2024 general election, the Alliance Party claimed: “The annual number of asylum applications to the UK peaked in 2002, and
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