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Immigration staff guidance on UK Visas and Immigration's powers to search people and seize items.
Version 4.0 This guidance is based on: Police and Criminal Evidence Act…
Immigration staff guidance on managing an applicant's biometric information.
Version 11.0 About this guidance This guidance gives officials and…
About this guidance This policy guidance explains to immigration officials…
This guidance tells you about the biometric information and the case…
Version 7.0 This guidance sets the policy requirements for the reuse of…
Version 5.0 Policy guidance on the retention and usage of biometric…
Updated: Version 6, March 2022 1. Background 1.1 In 2015, following input…
Version 5.0 About this guidance This policy guidance tells you how to…
Guidance on how to apply for a visa for a Commonwealth country or British overseas territory.
This page explains how you can apply for a visa if you want to travel to a…
For visa or citizenship applications, you may need to prove your knowledge of English by passing a secure English language test (SELT).
List of organisations licensed to sponsor workers on the Worker and Temporary Worker immigration routes.
List of institutions licensed to sponsor migrant students under the Student and Child Student routes.
Part 1 of the Immigration Act about the labour market and illegal working.
Immigration staff guidance on how to handle exemptions for visa applications made outside the UK.
Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.
Immigration Rules archive.
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