Guidance

Home Office Gaza process: caseworker guidance

For Home Office personnel conducting security checks and delivering the visa process for Gaza medical evacuations (medevacs) and Gaza scholarship students.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 17 September 2025
• Last updated: 11 November 2025 — See all updates

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Home Office Gaza process

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This guidance is for Home Office personnel conducting security checks and delivering the visa process for:

• Gaza medical evacuations (medevacs)
• Gaza scholarship students, where the UK government is providing support to exit Gaza

Published 17 September 2025

Last updated 11 November 2025 + show all updates

1. 11 November 2025

   Changes to Introduction, Part 1: HMG Gaza Medevac, Part 2: Gaza Scholarship Students, replace references to ‘Part 9: grounds for refusal’ with ‘Part Suitability’.

2. 27 October 2025

   Updated in line with the policy statement, 'scholarships for students from Gaza', published on 27 October.

3. 18 September 2025

   Updated Part 2: Gaza Scholarship Students.

4. 18 September 2025

   Added accessible version.

5. 17 September 2025

   First published.