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Immigration staff guidance on the facilitated return scheme (FRS) for foreign offenders.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Azerbaijan for your UK visa application.
Immigration Rules archive for 13 August 2025 to 3 September 2025.
Immigration Rules archive for 4 November 2025 to 10 November 2025.
Immigration Rules archive for 8 January 2026 to 4 March 2026.
Use this guidance to find out how your child can become a British citizen if you adopt in the UK from abroad.
List of Sampath Bank branches where you can pay your visa application fee in Sri Lanka.
Immigration staff guidance on the standards and processes to be followed when assessing, scoring and prioritising immigration enforcement operational work.
Immigration staff guidance on considering applications from dependants of part 5 migrants.
Immigration staff guidance for detention services order 09/2016 on reports submitted under Rule 35 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001.
A step-by-step manual to using miscellaneous confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) functions.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider article 8 ECHR cases when deporting a criminal.
Use this step-by-step manual if you are a Creative Worker sponsor managing groups of certificate of sponsorship (CoS).
Immigration Rules archive for 4 September 2025 to 13 October 2025
Immigration staff guidance on handling requests for priority treatment of citizenship applications.
Immigration staff guidance on considering applications in the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) category of the points-based system (PBS).
Country and nationality codes that licensed sponsors need for bulk data transfers between their IT systems and the sponsorship management system.
This guidance tells caseworkers about registration as a British citizen for Irish citizens, under section 4AA of the British Nationality Act 1981.
Detention Services Order 03/2022 about the care and management of potential and confirmed victims of modern slavery in detention.
Immigration staff guidance on sham marriages and the offences involved.
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