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Immigration staff guidance providing an overview of the different ways individuals can transit through the UK and definitions of key terminology.
Immigration staff guidance on deciding applications under the Ukraine Permission Extension (UPE) scheme.
A list of the civil penalties that can prevent you from getting or keeping your sponsorship licence.
Guidance for how certain people born before 1983, who didn't acquire British nationality at birth because their mother could not pass on status, can apply to correct that.
This video explains how to scan an identification document.
Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.
This guidance tells decision makers how to manage and decide applications under the UK/European Applicant Transfer Scheme.
National transfer procedure on transferring unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC).
Immigration staff guidance on the policy and process to follow when human rights issues are raised alongside an asylum claim or are inherent in that claim.
Immigration staff guide for how UK Visas and Immigration considers applications to enter or remain in the UK as a dependant family member of a Tier 1 migrant.
Immigration staff guidance on considering a previous breach of immigration laws.
Immigration staff guidance on how to recognise a genuine and subsisting relationship and identify a valid divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership.
Immigration staff guidance on dealing with immigration enforcement matters within the UK.
Immigration detention policy on adults who may be at risk of harm in detention.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
Use this step-by-step manual if you are a Creative Worker sponsor managing groups of certificate of sponsorship (CoS).
Guidance about how Chinese and Indian nationals can visit the UK and Ireland using a single visa.
Immigration staff guidance on assessing the age of an applicant when they claim to be a child.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in France for your UK visa application.
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