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Services

  1. Application to join civil penalty accreditation scheme

    Form to apply for UK Visas and Immigration's civil penalty accreditation scheme for hauliers.

  2. Application for approved gate check status

    Forms and information for carriers applying for approved gate check (AGC) status to reduce charges for inadequately documented passengers.

  3. Clearance of missing or delayed baggage: non-EU arrivals

    Form BOR1422 is used by non-EU arrivals when clearing missing or delayed baggage through UK customs controls at ports or airports.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Travelling to the UK
    • Guidance
    • Border Force
  2. Children travelling to the UK
    • Promotional
    • Border Force
  3. Returning residents
    • Guidance
    • UK Visas and Immigration
  4. Common travel area
    • Guidance
    • UK Visas and Immigration
  5. Transit guidance
    • Guidance
    • UK Visas and Immigration
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News and communications

Press release

Border Force seizes banned ivory in anti-wildlife crime operation

Border Force

  1. Hayling Island people smuggler guilty
    • Border Force
    • News story
  2. Border Force stop Farnborough smuggling attempt
    • Border Force
    • News story
  3. Border Force seizes rare live lizard at Heathrow
    • Border Force
    • News story
  4. Border Force seize more than a million cigarettes in Manchester
    • Border Force
    • News story
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Research and statistics

  1. Immigration statistics, year ending June 2018: data tables
    • Home Office
    • National statistics
  2. Third report on statistics being collected under the exit checks programme
    • Home Office
    • Official statistics
  3. Immigration statistics, year ending June 2018
    • Home Office
    • National statistics
  4. Customs examination powers to search baggage
    • Home Office and Border Force
    • Independent report
  5. Clearance of passengers at the border within published service standards
    • UK Visas and Immigration
    • Official statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Home Office’s immigration statistics – arrivals data
    • Home Office
    • Closed consultation
    • Date closed 02 September 2017
  2. Home Office response to the report 'An Inspection of Border Force operations at east coast seaports'
    • UK Visas and Immigration
    • Policy paper
  3. Home Office response to the report 'An Inspection of Border Force operations at Gatwick Airport (South Terminal)'
    • UK Visas and Immigration
    • Policy paper
  4. Home Office response to the report 'An inspection of Border Force’s identification and treatment of potential victims of modern slavery, July to October 2016'
    • UK Visas and Immigration
    • Policy paper
  5. Home Office response to the report 'An inspection of Border Force operations at Coventry and Langley postal hubs, March – July 2016'
    • UK Visas and Immigration
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Border Force transparency data: February 2018
    • Border Force, UK Visas and Immigration, and Immigration Enforcement
    • Transparency
  2. Border Force transparency data: November 2017
    • Border Force, UK Visas and Immigration, and Immigration Enforcement
    • Transparency
  3. Border Force transparency data: May 2017
    • Border Force, UK Visas and Immigration, and Immigration Enforcement
    • Transparency
  4. Border Force transparency data: August 2017
    • Border Force, UK Visas and Immigration, and Immigration Enforcement
    • Transparency
  5. Border Force transparency data: February 2017
    • Border Force, UK Visas and Immigration, and Immigration Enforcement
    • Transparency
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