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What to do if your guest will be temporarily absent from your accommodation.
Information about what to do if your guest will temporarily be absent from the UK.
How guests can find rematches, and the how councils can support them. Includes how sponsors can continue to host.
Sets out the council’s responsibilities for when guests are asked to leave their accommodation due to unreasonable behaviour.
Information about how to make your guests feel more comfortable in their new home, set expectations about how to live together and communicate with your guests.
If your guests are not ready to leave sponsorship and move into their own alternative accommodation, but you can no longer accommodate them, they may want to find a new host.
What to do if you are concerned for your guests or their children's safety. Includes what to do if you think they are being exploited.
Information about next steps when you have sponsored a guest for 6 months.
What councils need to do when a guest moves from one council's area to another council's area.
Visit the UK as a Standard Visitor for tourism, business, study (courses up to 6 months), medical treatment and other activities. Find out whether you need a Standard Visitor visa, or can visit without a visa.
What councils need to do when a guest moves between devolved administrations.
How to have sponsorship arrangements set up to end amicably, and what to do if a guest refuses to leave.
What your options are if you want to continue to live with your host, or if you need to move on to a new host.
Use this form to introduce evidence of a non-defendant's bad character.
The checks councils are required to carry out on a sponsor's home. Includes how two-tier councils conduct checks, and guest support needs.
It is against the law to discriminate against anyone because of their sex, religion, disability or certain other personal characteristics ('protected characteristics')
Using recommended patterns for workplace wifi networks and sharing infrastructure.
Making the first (interim) payments to guests.
Advises on how planning can manage potential noise impacts in new development.
Information for entertainers and musicians, from non-visa national countries, such as EU Member States and the US, visiting the UK for performance and work.
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