Guidance and regulation

A collection of the current Immigration Rules.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 16 May 2024

Immigration staff guidance on considering the English language requirement for partners and parents on the 5 year route to settlement.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 3 February 2023

• English language requirement (accessible)

  Version 8.0 About this guidance This guidance tells decision makers how to…

Immigration staff guidance on the Appendix Finance requirement.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 1 December 2023

• Financial requirement caseworker guidance (accessible)

  Financial requirement Version 7.0 About this guidance This guidance is for…

Guidance to apply for a letter to confirm your nationality status.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 4 October 2023

Guidance for Innovator Founder and Scale-up visa endorsing bodies.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 17 August 2023

Immigration staff guidance on assessing a person’s relationship with their partner.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 4 April 2024

Immigration Rules archive for 11 April 2024 to 15 May 2024.

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 22 May 2024

Information on EU, EEA and Swiss citizens' right to work in the UK.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 19 March 2021

How to pay an NHS debt so it does not affect your visa application or entry to the UK.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 9 March 2023

Immigration staff guidance on considering family migration applications that are not required to or cannot meet the minimum income threshold.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 8 December 2021

Immigration staff guidance on requirements for applications by children, including those applying as child dependants.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 4 April 2024

Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications for permission to stay in the UK on the basis of private life.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 25 May 2023

Immigration Rules archive for 11 March 2024 to 3 April 2024.

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 26 April 2024

Immigration Rules archive for 10 April 2024 to 10 April 2024.

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 26 April 2024

Telephone reporting allows eligible people to comply with the conditions of their immigration bail over the phone, reducing the need to attend a reporting centre in person.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 12 April 2022

Immigration Rules archive for 15 November 2023 to 27 December 2023.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 5 January 2024

Immigration Rules archive for 5 October 2023 to 14 November 2023.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 20 November 2023

Immigration Rules archive: 22 August 2022 to 17 October 2022.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 21 October 2022

Immigration staff guidance on how to recognise a genuine and subsisting relationship and identify a valid divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 20 June 2022

Immigration Rules archive for 31 January 2024 to 18 February 2024

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 22 February 2024