We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Check which jobs are on the temporary shortage list in the UK.
Immigration staff guidance about the different visitor categories for visiting the UK and how UK Visas and Immigration makes decisions on visitor cases.
Information for EU citizens and their families applying to the EU Settlement Scheme.
Guidance for sponsors on sponsor duties and compliance.
List of documents that businesses and other organisations must provide with an application for a Worker or Temporary Worker sponsor licence.
Prove to others you still have pre-settled status, if you later got another type of permission to enter or stay in the UK.
Guide for nationality application forms if you live in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, a British Overseas Territory, or if you live elsewhere and want to apply by post.
Information about work you may be able to do as an asylum applicant while your case is considered.
This guidance advises a landlord, letting agent or homeowner how to conduct a right to rent check when letting privately rented accommodation.
Guidance for sponsors on applying for a licence.
Guidance to register as a British citizen if you were born before 1983 to a British mother.
This video explains how to view and provide your online immigration status.
This video explains how to scan a passport biometric chip.
List of authorised organisations for Innovator Founder and Scale-up visas.
Guidance to register as a British citizen if you were born to a British father and your parents were not married.
How to apply for a Student sponsor licence and how to sponsor a student.
Information for people travelling to the UK from Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey or the Isle of Man, and information for people passing through the UK on the way to Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey or the Isle of Man.
These full terms and conditions explain the applicant’s obligations and what they can expect when booking and taking the Life in the UK Test.
Guidance for landlords and tenants on how right to rent checks should be carried out and which documents are acceptable.
Check if your job or occupation code is on the list of eligible healthcare and education jobs.
Do not include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).