Entering and staying in the UK
Services
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Fill in your passenger locator form
If you're travelling to the UK, you need to provide your details in case you or someone you've travelled with develops coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms.
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Check if you need a UK visa
You may need a visa to come to the UK to visit, study or work.
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Student visa
Apply for a Student visa to study in the UK if you're 16 or over - eligibility, extend or switch your visa, how much it costs and how long it takes
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Apply to the EU Settlement Scheme (settled and pre-settled status)
The EU Settlement Scheme for EU citizens and their families to remain in the UK after it leaves the EU ('Brexit'): who's eligible, how to apply, how much it costs.
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Standard Visitor visa
Apply for a Standard Visitor visa to visit the UK for tourism, business, study (courses up to 6 months), private medical treatment and other activities.
Guidance and regulation
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for UK visa applicants and temporary UK residents
- EU Settlement Scheme: evidence of UK residence
- Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK
- Immigration Rules
- Prove your English language abilities with a secure English language test (SELT)
News and communications
- ICIBI Inspection Plan 2021-22 Published
- Windrush compensation scheme end date removed
- UK-France agreement strengthens efforts to tackle illegal immigration
- Immigration Compliance Minister closing speech for Nationality & Borders Bill
- Home Secretary unveils plans to further support refugees in the UK and around the world
Research and statistics
- An inspection of contingency asylum accommodation: HMIP report on Penally Camp and Napier Barracks
- Issues raised by people facing return in immigration detention
- DCMS Official Statistics Release Calendar
- Immigration statistics data tables, year ending March 2021
- Immigration statistics, year ending March 2021
Policy papers and consultations
- New Plan for Immigration
- Response to an inspection of contingency asylum accommodation
- UK-France joint statement: next phase of tackling illegal migration
- The Nationality and Borders Bill: factsheet
- Local Voting Rights for EU Citizens Living in the UK
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- ICIBI Inspection Plan 2021-22
- Country returns guide
- OISC Annual Report and Accounts: 2020 to 2021
- Migration Advisory Committee meeting minutes 2019
- Visa fees transparency data
Organisations
- Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
- Migration Advisory Committee
- Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
- First-tier Tribunal (Asylum Support)
- Biometrics Commissioner
- The Charity Commission
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Police Advisory Board for England and Wales
- Sellafield Ltd
Explore sub-topics
- Border control
- Immigration adviser services
- Immigration offences
- Immigration rules
- Inspections of border, immigration and asylum services
- Permanent stay in the UK
- Refugees, asylum and human rights
- Rights of foreign nationals in the UK
- Travel and identity documents for foreign nationals
- Visas and entry clearance
- Visas and immigration corporate