The Home Office is using an algorithm to determine whether a marriage should be investigated as a ‘sham’, according to documents obtained by the Public Law Project under the Freedom of Information Act.

PLP is concerned that this algorithm m…

Newlyweds could be deported if flagged as suspicious by a new Home Office algorithm which lawyers warned could discriminate according to nationality and the age gap between partners. 

A system designed to detect “sham marriages” divides cou…

Newlyweds could be deported if flagged as suspicious by a new Home Office algorithm that may discriminate based on nationality, the Bureau can reveal. The system, outlined in an internal government document obtained by the Public Law Projec…

The Home Office has rebuffed Public Law Project’s (PLP) latest attempt to find out more about the secret algorithmic criteria used to decide whether a proposed marriage should be investigated as a “sham”. 

Sham marriage investigations can b…