UK Visas and Immigration

Part of Home Office
  1. Check if you need a UK visa
  2. Apply for a UK visa
  3. Visa processing times
  4. Visas and immigration
  5. Live permanently in the UK
  6. EU, EEA and Commonwealth
  7. Sponsorship management system
  8. Immigration law and operational guidance

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The settlement scheme

Service

EU Settlement Scheme guidance

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

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News story

New asylum accommodation contracts awarded

The Home Office has awarded New Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contracts (AASC) following an open and fair procurement exercise.

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News story

Online right to work checks

Employers will be able to rely on an online Right to Work Checking Service to demonstrate compliance with illegal working legislation.

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Assisted Digital service: UK Visas and Immigration

UK Visas and Immigration offers Assisted Digital support for customers who have difficulty using online services.

If you arrived in the UK before 1 January 1973 but do not have the correct documents to prove your right to be here, we can help you.

Guidance

Windrush scheme and information

Information on the Windrush scheme for Commonwealth citizens and others who have been in the UK for a long time and are worried about their immigration status.

Latest from UK Visas and Immigration

  1. Employer sponsorship: restricted certificate allocations
    • Guidance
  2. Register of licensed sponsors: workers
    • Guidance
  3. Register of licensed sponsors: students
    • 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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News and communications

  1. Update to HASC on Windrush: 7 February 2019
    • Correspondence
  2. Government outlines no deal arrangements for EU citizens
    • News story
  3. See all news and communications

Consultations

  1. Windrush compensation: call for evidence
    • Consultation outcome
  2. Misdirected passengers: consultation on a new civil penalty
    • Closed consultation
  3. See all consultations

Publications

  1. Employer sponsorship: restricted certificate allocations
    • Guidance
  2. Register of licensed sponsors: workers
    • Guidance
  3. See all publications

Statistics

  1. Migrant journey: fifth report
    • Official statistics
  2. Immigration statistics, July to September 2014
    • National statistics
  3. See all statistics

Our ministers

Caroline Nokes MP

The Rt Hon

Caroline Nokes MP

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

Corporate information

Jobs and contracts

  1. Working for UKVI
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