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Information on handling visa applications made outside the UK.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Rwanda for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Panama for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Namibia for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Mozambique for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for your UK visa application.
Immigration Rules archive: 28 August 2018 to 31 October 2018
Immigration Rules archive for 12 March 2025 to 1 April 2025.
Guidance for frontline staff on illegal working closure notices and compliance orders.
Immigration Rules archive for 8 April 2026 to 28 April 2026.
Immigration staff guidance on dealing with post-licence changes related to Worker and Temporary Worker sponsors.
Information and guidance on handling armed forces applications made outside the United Kingdom.
Guidance for the courts in England in considering the defence of taking steps to end a residential tenancy agreement.
Chapter 14, section 1 of the immigration directorate instructions provides for certain people with no right to abode to be exempt from control.
Detention services order 10/2024 about UK Visas and Immigration's risk assessment procedure before a detainee is placed in detention.
Immigration staff guidance on making decisions involving difficult ethical issues.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Myanmar (Burma) for your visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Armenia for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Belarus for your UK visa application.
Immigration staff guidance outlining the policy for foreign-language documents submitted for asylum claims and the process for obtaining a translation.
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