- Lin Homer
Lin Homer CB is head of the
UK Border Agency . She was born inNorfolk and educated inSuffolk . After attending university inLondon she qualified as alawyer inReading before spending 15 years atHertfordshire and joiningSuffolk County Council aschief executive in 1998.From Suffolk she went to be the chief executive of
Birmingham City Council . Her time there was controversialcite news
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title = City chief executive was doomed to go
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publisher =Birmingham Post
date = 2005-06-07
url = http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/tm_objectid=15602602&method=full&siteid=50002-name_page.html
accessdate = 2008-07-12] . A judge described the council as having "thrown the rule book out of the window" after a massive electoral fraud in 2005 [cite news
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title = Gordon's roll of dishonour
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accessdate = 2008-07-12] . However, a former Labour leader of the council described her as "one of the best chief executives I have had the privilege to work alongside"After three years there she joined the civil service as the head of the
Immigration and Nationality Directorate in August 2005. Her leadership of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, (later to be renamedBorder and Immigration Agency and, later still, theUK Border Agency ), has also been marred by controversy, most notably the scandals concerning the failure to deport foreign national criminals which led to the resignation of the then Home SecretaryCharles Clarke .She was appointed
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. [LondonGazette |issue=58729 |date=14 June 2008 |startpage=2 |supp=yes |notarchive=yes]Footnotes
External links
* [http://bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/ BIA official website]
* [http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ Home Office]
* [http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/ UK Border Agency]
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