Domestic Deportation Framework: Key Provisions & Considerations

1. Understanding the Domestic Deportation Framework: An Overview

This series of articles will examine the domestic deportation framework that governs the deportation of non-British nationals convicted of criminal offences in the UK.

There are two legislative frameworks that can apply, deportation under EEA regulations and deportation under domestic legislation. This series focussed on deportation under the domestic deportation framework and this article will address the structure of the framework.

The domestic deportation framework applies to most non-British and non-EEA nationals who have committed a crime. It also applies to those protected by the Withdrawal Agreement (mostly EEA citizens who have been in the UK since at least 2020) convicted of crimes which took place after 11pm GMT on 31 December 2020 (i.e. after the end of the transition period).