Guidance

Failure to produce immigration document: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on the offence a person commits if they do not have a valid passport or travel document.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 13 March 2014
• Last updated: 11 December 2025
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  1. 11 December 2025

     Updated guidance to include housekeeping changes and updates in relation to EEA nationals.

  2. 21 May 2020

     Latest version of the guidance published with minor amendments.

  3. 16 October 2019

     Updated 'Prosecution under section 2: failure to produce immigration document'

  4. 22 May 2015

     Updated guidance.

  5. 13 March 2014

     First published.

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance for staff about the offence a person commits under section 2 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004, if they do not have a valid passport or equivalent travel document at a leave to enter or asylum interview.