The Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) was part of the Home Office, a department of the United Kingdom government.
The department had its headquarters in Croydon, South London, where it occupied thirteen buildings.
The IND was responsible for inward migration to the United Kingdom, asylum applications and the recognition of refugees, nationality and citizenship and the removal and deportation of immigration offenders.
The IND was split into directorates with responsibility for different areas of its work.
Some of those directorates were: On 19 July 2006, the Home Secretary, John Reid confirmed that the IND would be hived off as an executive agency after a major reorganisation of the Home Office.[1].