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Immigration staff guidance on claims where gender-related persecution or serious harm forms all or part of the claim.
Immigration staff guidance on settlement applications from members of HM forces.
Immigration staff guidance on handling HM forces exempt from immigration control.
Immigration staff guidance on the discretionary policy in place for those discharged from the British Army, Brigade of Gurkhas prior to 1 July 1997.
Detention services order 20/2012 on dealing with MAPPA offenders.
Immigration Rules archive for 16 May 2024 to 5 June 2024.
Immigration Rules archive for 25 November 2025 to 8 December 2025.
Immigration Rules archive: 6 April 2020 to 3 June 2020
Immigration staff guidance on managing individuals in detention who have claimed asylum and processing them into detention following an asylum claim.
Immigration staff guidance explaining how to consider applications for entry clearance, permission to stay or settlement following a grant of the coronavirus extension concession (CEC) or the exceptional assurance (EA) conce…
Answers to frequently asked questions about bulk data transfers between sponsors' IT systems and the sponsorship management system (SMS).
Immigration staff guidance on who can register as a British citizen under the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997.
Immigration staff guidance on which cases may be checked through international biometric data-sharing and how to arrange these checks and use the results.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides on applications from sex offenders.
Immigration staff guidance on non-compliant asylum and human rights claims.
Immigration staff guidance on dealing with post-licence changes related to Worker and Temporary Worker sponsors.
Customer service standards for Ukraine visa applications if you're applying from outside the UK.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Mozambique for your UK visa application.
Immigration staff guidance on refusing crew members.
Immigration staff guidance on assessing whether someone is excluded from Asylum or Humanitarian Protection.
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