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: 24 December 2025
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  1. 24 December 2025

     Updated 'Part 2: Gaza Scholarship Students'.

  2. 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’.

  3. 27 October 2025

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

  4. 18 September 2025

     Updated Part 2: Gaza Scholarship Students.

  5. 18 September 2025

     Added accessible version.

  6. 17 September 2025

     First published.

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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