Guidance

Returns preparation: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on arranging removals for officers dealing with immigration enforcement matters within the UK.

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UK Visas and Immigration
Published
3 November 2016
Last updated
10 March 2023 — See all updates

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Administrative removal: notification and implementation – interim guidance

PDF, 817 KB, 48 pages

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Arranging removal

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Data sharing in enforcement cases: standards of operational practice

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Family returns process

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Family separations

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Initial consideration and assessment of liability to administrative removal

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Judicial reviews, injunctions and applications to the European Court of Human Rights (accessible)

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Judicial reviews, injunctions and applications to the European Court of Human Rights

PDF, 368 KB, 35 pages

Removal/deportation of witnesses to deaths in detention - interim guidance

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Suspension of enforced removal window

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Voluntary and assisted returns

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Notification of special arrangements (court letter)

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff prepare and arrange for a single person or a family group to be removed from the UK.

It also contains information on decisions to separate family members as a consequence of detention or removal.

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.

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Published 3 November 2016
Last updated 10 March 2023 + show all updates

  1. Information on authority levels for service of a notice of liability has been removed from the Administrative Removal notification and implementation – interim guidance.

  2. 'Arranging removal' guidance updated (pdf).

  3. Added administrative removal: notification and implementation – interim guidance.

  4. Removed 'Returns: case consideration' and 'Returns preparation: referral and case assessment' documents as they are no longer relevant.

  5. Added Initial consideration and assessment of liability to administrative removal.

  6. Updated guidance on judicial reviews, injunctions and applications to the European Court of Human Rights. Changes are detailed on page 4 of the document. Document 'Suspension of enforced removal window' temporarily removed pending update.

  7. Minor text change at pages 23 and 25 in 'Judicial reviews and injunctions' doc to link the special arrangements (charter flights) section to exceptions to standard notification of removal.

  8. 'Judicial reviews and injunctions' has been updated and 'Notification of special arrangements (court letter)' was added.

  9. New "removal/deportation of witnesses to deaths in detention-interim guidance" added.

  10. Voluntary and assisted returns guidance updated: review of references to EEA nationals to reflect changes to eligibility; review of references to Third Country Unit, inadmissible countries; changes to the structure and amount of reintegration support that is available for applicants.

  11. Updated judicial reviews and injunctions guidance.

  12. Updated the assisted and voluntary returns guidance with the latest version.

  13. 'Family returns process' updated.

  14. Replaced the 'Judicial review and injunctions' document with a new version.

  15. Updated voluntary and assisted returns guidance.

  16. Updated judicial reviews and injunctions guidance.

  17. Guidance on 'suspension of enforced removal window' updated.

  18. New voluntary and assisted returns guidance.

  19. Updated 'Judicial reviews and injunctions' document.

  20. Suspension of enforced removal window guidance added.

  21. Updated family returns process guidance update.

  22. Updated judicial reviews and injunctions.

  23. Updated guidance on arranging removal and judicial reviews.

  24. Updated judicial reviews and injunctions guidance.

  25. Removed the Member of Parliament (MP) representations document as this Arranging removal document has replaced it.

  26. Replaced the returns preparation with a new version.

  27. Updated family separations guidance.

  28. Guidance added on 'Judicial reviews and injunctions' and 'MP representations'.

  29. New arranging removals guidance.

  30. Updated family returns process guidance.

  31. Updated guidance: 'Family returns process'.

  32. New guidance on returns: case consideration.

  33. 'Family separations' updated.

  34. Guidance added on 'Returns preparation: referral and case assessment'.

  35. First published.

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