The first Rwanda deportation flight will take place next February if the Government secures victory in its Supreme Court bid.
Civil servants have been told to prepare for the first flight carrying asylum seekers on a one-way ticket to the East African nation on February 24.
The date, reported by the Daily Mail, comes as the Government faces a wait over whether the policy is lawful.
The Home Office has challenged a Court of Appeal ruling from June that the multimillion-pound deal. which is a key part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge to stop small boats, was unlawful.
A three-day hearing took place at the Supreme Court earlier this month.
Supreme Court president Lord Reed said the five justices would give their ruling at a later date.
Both the Court of Appeal and High Court gave judgments on their respective cases around two months after the hearings ended.
Britain paid Rwanda £140million under an asylum partnership struck in April last year.
The first deportations were due in June last year but the plane did not leave the tarmac after a series of legal challenges.
In June, Court of Appeal judges overturned an earlier High Court ruling that found Rwanda could be considered a “safe third country”.
