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Trial digital ID on new arrivals before UK citizens.

Submitted by Joshua McGinley on Friday 3rd October 2025

Published on Wednesday 12th November 2025

Current status: Open

Open until: Tuesday 12th May 2026

Current Signatures: 61
(count is updated approximately hourly)

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Citizens ~ Digital ~ Digital ID ~ End ~ Freedom ~ ID ~ Illegal ~ Illegal migration ~ Immigration ~ Law ~ Migration ~ Parliament ~ PRIVACY ~ system ~ Tackling ~ The End ~ UK citizens

Petition Action

Trial digital ID on new arrivals before UK citizens.

Petition Details

The Government has said digital ID is to tackle illegal immigration. We ask that it is first applied to all new arrivals only, for the remainder of this Parliament. Its effectiveness should be measured and published transparently before imposing it on law-abiding UK citizens.

Additional Information

The justification for digital ID is tackling illegal migration. If this is true, we believe it should be trialled on new arrivals to the UK, who do not have citizenship, not imposed on the public. We think a trial until the end of this Parliament would prove whether the system actually works before asking citizens to surrender freedoms and privacy for an untested policy.


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