UK Visas and Immigration

Part of Home Office
  1. Check if you need a UK visa
  2. Visit the UK
  3. Work in the UK or sponsor a worker
  4. Study in the UK or sponsor a student
  5. Join your UK, EU, or EEA family member in the UK
  6. Live permanently in the UK and British Citizenship
  7. Apply to the EU Settlement Scheme
  8. Visas and immigration operational guidance

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Young scientists

News story

Global Britain to attract more top scientists with fast tracked entry

More top scientists and researchers are to be given fast tracked entry to the UK.

EU Settlement Scheme poster

Service

EU Settlement Scheme guidance

A guide to applying to the EU Settlement Scheme for EU citizens and their families.

Using the EU Exit ID Document Check app

Detailed guide

Using the ‘EU Exit: ID Document Check’ app

Information for EU citizens and their families applying to the EU Settlement Scheme.

Latest from UK Visas and Immigration

  1. Sri Lanka: country policy and information notes
    • Guidance
  2. Windrush scheme
    • Detailed guide
  3. First-tier Tribunal bail
    • Guidance

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What UK Visas and Immigration does

UK Visas and Immigration is responsible for making millions of decisions every year about who has the right to visit or stay in the country, with a firm emphasis on national security and a culture of customer satisfaction for people who come here legally.

UKVI is part of the Home Office.

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Services

  1. Apply to the EU Settlement Scheme (settled and pre-settled status)
  2. Check if you need a UK visa
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Guidance and regulation

  1. EU Settlement Scheme: evidence of UK residence
    • Detailed guide
  2. EU Settlement Scheme: application processing times
    • Guidance
See all guidance and regulation

News and communications

  1. Global Britain to attract more top scientists with fast tracked entry
    • News story
  2. Home Office launches £1 million advertising campaign for EU Settlement Scheme
    • News story
See all news and communications

Research and statistics

  1. Windrush Compensation Scheme independent review: the Adjudicator
    • Research
  2. Review of Tier 1 (General) settlement refusals
    • Research
See all research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

  1. Immigration Rules archive: 24 November 2016 to 11 December 2016
    • Policy paper
  2. Immigration Rules archive: 19 May 2016 to 23 November 2016
    • Policy paper
See all policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. List of UKVI international application points and decision making centres
    • FOI release
  2. Country returns guide
    • Transparency
See all transparency and freedom of information releases

Our management

Mark Thomson
Mark Thomson
Director General, UK Visas and Immigration

Contact UKVI

Contact UK Visas and Immigration from outside or inside the UK

Contact Form: Contact UK Visas and Immigration from outside or inside the UK

Make a subject access request

Contact Form: Make a subject access request

Find out how to see the personal information that UK Visas and Immigration holds about you.

Report an immigration crime

Contact Form: Report an immigration crime

Immigration Enforcement hotline

0300 123 7000

In an emergency, dial 999 and ask for the police.

Make an FOI request

  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.
  3. Make a new request by contacting us using the details below.

Freedom of Information requests

Direct communications unit
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
United Kingdom

Email

foirequests@homeoffice.gov.uk

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