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Immigration Rules archive for 16 July 2025 to 16 July 2025.
Immigration Rules archive for 22 February 2024 to 10 March 2024.
Immigration Rules archive for 29 July 2025 to 3 August 2025.
Guidance for banks and building societies on carrying out immigration status checks on current account holders and applicants.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications in the Tier 1 (Investor) category of the points-based system.
Immigration staff guidance on handling requests for priority treatment of citizenship applications.
This guidance tells caseworkers how to consider applications to enter, remain or settle in the UK under the Scale-up route.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides on applications from sex offenders.
Immigration staff guidance on whether to refuse an application where a person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement to provide information.
Immigration staff guidance on applications for a purpose not covered by the Immigration Rules.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Botswana for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Guatemala for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Sudan for your UK visa application.
Information for applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme on how refunds are processed if you paid an application fee.
Immigration staff guidance on abandoned appeals.
Guidance for people who wish to apply to the Windrush Schemes from overseas
Immigration staff guidance on who can register as a British citizen under the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997.
Country and nationality codes that licensed sponsors need for bulk data transfers between their IT systems and the sponsorship management system.
Answers to frequently asked questions about bulk data transfers between sponsors' IT systems and the sponsorship management system (SMS).
Chapter 14, section 1 of the immigration directorate instructions provides for certain people with no right to abode to be exempt from control.
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