The exact date that Rishi Sunak's Rwanda plan is set to come into law has been revealed according to a plan drawn up by Government whips.
The hope had been to seek royal assent for the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill on Thursday next week, GB News has learned.
However, the plan now is to complete the whole process in the week following the return of MPs and peers from their Easter break.
This will see Government whips will order Conservative MPs to reject changes to the Bill before one final push to force the legislation through the House of Lords.
Exact date Rwanda plan to become law REVEALED
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This would see MPs vote against seven amendments made by peers on Monday, April 15.
Whips are then expecting peers to reinstate the amendments a third time.
The Bill will then return to the Commons on Wednesday, April 17 for MPs to vote down the peers' amendments. At that point peers are expected to signal that they agree to the will of the Commons, allowing for the Bill to receive royal assent on Thursday, April 18.
One senior Government source told GB News: "It is our hope and expectation that we would be able to achieve [royal assent] on Thursday 18 April."
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The bill has been debated in the House of LordsPARishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, has made stopping migrants crossing the Channel to enter the UK illegally one of his five tests of his premiership.
He wants the threat of being flown to Rwanda for illegally-arrived migrants to stem the tide of crossings from France.
Officials in the Home Office will then be in a race against the clock to get flights off the ground before the May deadline set by Sunak.
Under the UK's unwritten constitution when a Bill has completed all the parliamentary stages in both Houses, it is ready to receive royal assent.
Officials in the Home Office will then be in a race against the clock to get flights off the ground before the May deadline set by Sunak
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This is when the King formally agrees to make the bill into an Act of Parliament.
Suggestions that the process to approve new laws is taking longer under the King than the late Queen have been strongly denied by the Palace.
There is no set time period between the conclusion of consideration of amendments - a process known as 'ping pong' between the Commons and Lords - and royal assent.
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