Manage your application
A to Z
- Biometric residence permits (BRPs)
- Cancel your visa, immigration or citizenship application
- Get a faster reply to your visa application
- Get your visa, immigration or citizenship documents back
- Immigration reporting centres
- Report a change of circumstances if you have a visa or BRP
- Transfer your visa from your passport
- Tuberculosis tests for visa applicants
- Visa fees
- Visa premium service centres
- Visa processing times
Detailed guidance
Visas and immigration
A to Z
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Asylum
Claiming asylum as a refugee, the asylum process and support
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EU, EEA and Commonwealth
EEA family permits, UK residence cards, UK Ancestry visas
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Family visas
Visiting the UK for 6 months or more, including visas for partners (eg spouse) and family members
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Immigration appeals and legal advice
Appeal against a visa, settlement or asylum decision, legal advice
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Manage your application
Visa processing times, biometric information, premium services, report a change
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Settle in the UK
Get indefinite leave to remain (ILR)
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Sponsor workers or students
Licences and certificates of sponsorship for employers and universities and colleges
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Stateless
Stay in the UK if you're stateless
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Student visas
Short-term study and Tier 4 visas for students
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Tourist and short stay visas
Visiting the UK for up to 6 months
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Transit visas
In transit through the UK: airside, landside or the common travel area
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Travelling to the UK
Entering the UK, going through customs and moving your belongings
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Work visas
Paid and voluntary work visas (eg Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 5)
All categories
- Benefits
- Births, deaths, marriages and care
- Business and self-employed
- Childcare and parenting
- Citizenship and living in the UK
- Crime, justice and the law
- Disabled people
- Driving and transport
- Education and learning
- Employing people
- Environment and countryside
- Housing and local services
- Money and tax
- Passports, travel and living abroad
- Visas and immigration
- Working, jobs and pensions