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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
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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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Would 35 million people live in Ireland if it was as densely populated as England?
5 April 2023
On 25 March, Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey claimed on social media: “Had we English levels of density we’d have a population of 35 million.” Mr
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Do more than 700,000 born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport?
5 March 2020
831,779 Irish passport applications (2010-19) represents 44.7% of the Northern Ireland-born population living in the UK at the time of the 2011 Censuses. On the
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Do Northern Ireland pets need passports for Ireland?
5 October 2018
This includes your pet being marked by a transponder (microchip) and vaccinated against rabies. There are presently no border checks for pets (as official policy);
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