Guidance and regulation

For visa or citizenship applications, you may need to prove your knowledge of English by passing a secure English language test (SELT).

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 22 April 2024

Immigration staff guidance on dealing with family applications.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 11 April 2024

• Appendix FM and Appendix HM Armed Forces: minimum income requirement (accessible version)

  Family Migration: Appendix FM and Appendix HM Armed Forces Minimum income…

• Appendix FM and adult dependent relatives: maintenance and accommodation (accessible version)

  Version 11.0 About this guidance This guidance tells decision makers how…

• Annex FM 3.1: children (accessible version)

  July 2012 Immigration directorate instructions Chapter 8, section FM 3.1:…

• Annex FM 3.2: children guidance (accessible version)

  Immigration directorate instructions Chapter 8, section FM 3.2 - children…

• Adult dependent relatives (accessible version)

  Version 5.0 About this guidance This guidance tells decision makers how to…

Immigration staff guidance on processing applications for a fee waiver.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 23 December 2022

• Fee waiver: Human Rights-based and other specified applications

  Version 6.0 About this guidance This guidance tells you how to consider…

Statement and consent form to inform UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) that you are no longer in your marriage or civil partnership.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 14 December 2015

Chapter 8, section 1 of the immigration directorate instructions deals with spouses under the family members transitional arrangements.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 3 April 2017

Information about applications submitted as the family member of a person who is living permanently in the UK.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 16 April 2014

Immigration staff guidance on considering applications from Commonwealth citizens with a grandparent born in the UK.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 19 December 2023

Immigration staff guidance on investigating sham marriages.

• From: Home Office and 1 others
• Updated: 28 June 2023

Immigration staff guidance on considering applications from dependants of part 5 migrants.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 25 July 2019

Sets out the Immigration Rules that the government intends to apply from July 2012 to non-EEA family members.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 11 June 2012

Information about the 5 July 2013 High Court judgment on the minimum income for spouses, partners and children applying to stay or settle in the UK.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 16 July 2014

Minimum income requirement for sponsorship under the family migration route, Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report.

• From: Migration Advisory Committee and 1 others
• Updated: 1 November 2011

Equality impact assessment and impact assessment for the English language requirement for partners used by UK Visas and Immigration.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 1 October 2010