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Immigration staff guidance on how to deal with international travel ban cases.
Immigration Rules archive for 14 October 2025 to 3 November 2025.
Immigration Rules archive for 1 January 2026 to 7 January 2026.
Guidance for local authorities and health and social care trusts to make sure looked-after children and care leavers apply to the EU Settlement Scheme.
These factsheets provide information for EU, EEA, Swiss citizens and their family members who applied to the EU Settlement Scheme by 30 June 2021.
Immigration staff guidance on the duration of, and conditions attached to, permission to stay.
List of Standard Chartered Bank branches where you can pay your visa application fee in Nigeria.
Immigration staff guidance on considering the forms it needs to complete when preparing a case for prosecution.
Immigration staff guidance on abandoned appeals.
Immigration staff guidance on disclosure and confidentiality of information in asylum claims.
Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.
Chapter 17, section 4 of the immigration directorate instructions deals with how UK Visas and Immigration handles applications from continental shelf workers.
Immigration staff guidance on deciding applications to transfer a visa to a new biometric residence permit.
Information and guidance on handling visa applications made outside the UK.
Immigration staff guidance on transferring refugee status.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Sudan for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Cambodia for your UK visa application.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications to enter, remain or settle in the UK on the International Sportsperson route.
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