Administrative review: caseworker guidance
Immigration staff guidance on processing applications for an administrative review.
Updates to this page
- From:
- UK Visas and Immigration
- Published:
- 21 October 2014
- Last updated:
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3 August 2026
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Updated the Administrative review guide to add Appendix ECAA Settlement: ECAA nationals and settlement into the list of eligible routes.
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The guidance has been updated to tell applicants where their sponsor's licence has been revoked.
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The guidance has been updated to reflect changes to the Immigration Rules made by Statement of Changes HC 1491 from 1 January 2026, closing the Service Providers from Switzerland route and removing any scope from that date to apply for an administrative review of a decision under that route under Appendix AR (EU).
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The 'administrative review' guidance has been amended to reflect changes in the language describing reviewable errors.
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The guidance has been amended to reflect changes to the Immigration Rules made in 2024 and 2025, including the transfer of provisions in Part 1 and Appendix AR to Appendix Administrative Review and the transfer of challenges to in-country grants of permission from administrative review to the error correction process.
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Administrative review guidance amended to state explicitly that eligible decisions to cancel permission at the border for a change of circumstances include all the changes of circumstance in section 5 of Part 9 of the Immigration Rules.
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Administrative review guidance updated to set out the steps caseworkers should take to contact applicants where an administrative review has been pending for 6 months.
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The Administrative review: EU Settlement Scheme, service providers from Switzerland and S2 healthcare visitors guidance has been updated to reflect changes to the Immigration Rules from 4 April 2024, in particular to remove any scope from that date to apply for an administrative review of a decision under the EU Settlement Scheme.
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The guidance has been updated to reflect changes to the Immigration Rules which removed the right to seek an administrative review under Appendix AR (EU) against any eligible decision made on or after 5 October 2023, unless it is an eligible decision in relation to Appendix Service Providers from Switzerland.
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Document 'Adminstrative review: EU Settlement Scheme' updated. The guidance has been amended to reflect changes to the Immigration Rules. An application may not be made for review of a decision made on suitability grounds, even if the same decision was also made on eligibility grounds. An application for review will be treated as withdrawn if the applicant makes a valid application for entry clearance, leave to enter or leave to remain under Appendix EU, Appendix EU (Family Permit), Appendix S2 Healthcare Visitor or Appendix Service Providers from Switzerland.
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'Administrative review: EU Settlement Scheme' guidance has been amended to make it clear that an applicant cannot apply for an administrative review on the grounds that the decision breaches the Withdrawal Agreements. It also provides advice on how to handle cases where the applicant raises the lawfulness of a decision in their administrative review.
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Administrative review guidance has been updated as follows: to reflect the decisions that have a right of administrative review; to reflect that from 6 April 2021 there is a fee for administrative reviews of entry clearance decisions; to update references to Part 9 of the Rules; and other general housekeeping.
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Updated administrative review guidance.
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New administrative review guidance on frontier workers added.
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Replaced the Administrative review: EU Settlement Scheme with an updated version.
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EU Settlement Scheme admin review guidance document replaced with updated version.
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Updated guidance document 'administrative review'.
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Updated Administrative review guidance.
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Updated apply online link in the administrative review: EU Settlement Scheme guidance.
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Updated the Administrative review: EU Settlement Scheme document with a new version.
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Updated EU Settlement Scheme administrative review guidance
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Administrative review information for the EU Settlement Scheme added.
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Updated guidance.
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Updated guidance.
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Updated guidance.
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Updated guidance.
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updated guidance
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Updated guidance
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Documents
Administrative review
PDF, 505 KB, 56 pages
Administrative review: frontier workers
PDF, 180 KB, 16 pages
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UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff validate, consider and decide applications for an administrative review made under the Immigration Rules.