Collection
Visas and immigration operational guidance
Visas and immigration operational guidance for staff.
A collection of operational policy guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration staff to make decisions.
Asylum guidance
Enforcement guidance
Entry clearance guidance
- Appeals (entry clearance guidance)
- Common travel area (entry clearance guidance)
- Crew members (entry clearance guidance)
- Entry clearance basics (entry clearance guidance)
- Entry for non points-based system employment (entry clearance guidance)
- European nationals and schemes (entry clearance guidance)
- Exempt (entry clearance guidance)
- Family members under Part 8 and Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules
- Maintenance and accommodation (entry clearance guidance)
- Medical issues (entry clearance guidance)
- Right of abode (entry clearance guidance)
- Settlement (entry clearance guidance)
Fees and forms
Immigration rules
Immigration staff guidance
- Appeals (immigration staff guidance)
- Applications (immigration staff guidance)
- Armed forces (immigration staff guidance)
- EEA, Swiss nationals and EC association agreements (immigration staff guidance)
- Enforcement and criminal investigations (immigration staff guidance)
- Family of people settled or coming to settle (immigration staff guidance)
- General grounds for refusal (immigration staff guidance)
- Identity checks (immigration staff guidance)
- Immigration intelligence (immigration staff guidance)
- Other cross-cutting guidance (immigration staff guidance)
- Other immigration categories (immigration staff guidance)
- Settlement (immigration staff guidance)
- Studying (Immigration staff guidance)
- Visitors (immigration staff guidance)
- Working in the UK (immigration staff guidance)
Nationality guidance
- Requirements and considerations common to all types of British nationality (nationality guidance)
- British citizenship (nationality guidance)
- Right of Abode (nationality guidance)
- British overseas territories citizens (BOTC) (nationality guidance)
- British overseas citizens (nationality guidance)
- British subjects (nationality guidance)
- British nationals overseas (nationality guidance)
- British protected persons (nationality guidance)
- Historical background information on nationality (nationality guidance)
Windrush guidance
Published 22 May 2023