Guidance
Powers and operational procedure
Guidance and information on administrative and criminal powers for officers dealing with immigration enforcement matters within the UK.
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Enforcement instructions and guidance documents on administrative and criminal powers for officers dealing with immigration enforcement matters within the UK.
Guidance in this section has been reworked into a new format and plainer language. Not all of the enforcement guidance has been revised yet. If you cannot find the information you need in this section, please look in the ‘chapters’ sections of Enforcement instructions and guidance.
Published 24 March 2016
Last updated 13 June 2017 + show all updates
Last updated 13 June 2017 + show all updates
- Updated guidance on partnership working.
- New guidance on clandestine illegal entrants and enforcement visits: safety and personal protection.
- Updated guidance on 'Critical incident management'.
- Updated guidance on partnership working.
- New guidance added on 'Record keeping during enforcement visits'.
- Guidance added on 'Critical incident management'.
- Updated guidance on marriage investigations.
- Updated guidance on 'Enforcement visits'.
- 'Search and seizure' guidance updated.
- Guidance added on 'Operational planning and briefing'.
- Guidance added on 'Warrants: procurement and use'.
- Updated 'right to rent landlords' guidance.
- Guidance added on 'Partnership working'.
- Guidance added on 'Operational enforcement visits'.
- Guidance added on 'Post enforcement visit actions'.
- 'Marriage investigations' guidance added.
- Guidance added on 'Arrest and restraint', 'Enforcement interviews', 'Identifying people at risk', 'Illegal working operations' and updated guidance on 'Search and seizure'.
- New search and seizure guidance.
- Updated 'Right to rent scheme: landlords' guidance.
- Guidance on 'Right to rent scheme: landlords' added.
- Updated guidance.
- First published.