Settle in the UK

A to Z

• Apply for a Returning Resident visa
• Apply to settle in the UK
• Biometric residence permits (BRPs)
• Life in the UK Test
• Prove your knowledge of English for citizenship and settling
• Return home if you're in the UK illegally or have claimed asylum
• Settlement: refugee or humanitarian protection

Detailed guidance

• Visas and immigration operational guidance

Visas and immigration

A to Z

• Arriving in the UK

  Entering the UK, going through customs and moving your belongings

• Asylum

  Claiming asylum as a refugee, the asylum process and support

• EU, EEA and Commonwealth

  EEA family permits, UK residence cards, UK Ancestry visas

• Family visas

  Visiting the UK for 6 months or more, including visas for partners (eg spouse) and family members

• Immigration appeals and legal advice

  Appeal against a visa, settlement or asylum decision, legal advice

• Manage your application

  Visa processing times, biometric information, premium services, report a change

• Settle in the UK

  Get indefinite leave to remain (ILR)

• Sponsor workers or students

  Licences and certificates of sponsorship for employers and universities and colleges

• Stateless

  Stay in the UK if you're stateless

• Student visas

  Short-term study and Tier 4 visas for students

• Tourist and short stay visas

  Visiting the UK for up to 6 months

• Transit visas

  In transit through the UK: airside, landside or the common travel area

• 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