Vital immigration papers lost by UK Home Office

Campaigners have warned there are hundreds of cases in which original documents such as birth certificates, payslips and marriage certificates have gone missing.A wave of devastating incidents of vital personal papers being lost in immigration cases has led to renewed calls for the Home Office to overhaul the way it handles documents.The problem has been so severe that at its peak the department routinely mislaid thousands of files, a former senior immigration official said.