Our organisation
In April 2008 the UK Border Agency was launched as a shadow agency of the Home Office. Shadow status is a transitional period of operation which we are undergoing before becoming a full executive agency. Agency status gives us and our people the freedom to operate and focus our resources within a clearly defined mandate from the Home Office. It provides us with:
- a sharper focus on delivery, better meeting the public's expectations in maintaining secure borders, finding and removing illegal immigrants and tackling those who facilitate them coming here;
- clearer accountability, not only to the public, but also to our customers, to our partners and to ministers;
- greater operational freedom to respond to the challenges we face and to manage our people and resources more effectively;
- the ability to reinvest savings into improving our business delivery;
- an opportunity to forge new ways of working and new relationships with our partners; and
- a new identity to bring our staff together under a clear, single brand with unified clarity of purpose.
