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Technical information for licensed sponsors using bulk data transfers between their IT systems and the sponsorship management system (SMS).
Immigration staff guidance on abandoned appeals.
Information for family members of NHS workers and independent health and social care workers who have died as a result of contracting coronavirus (COVID-19).
Immigration staff guidance on sponsorship customer service standards.
Immigration staff guidance on applications for a basic compliance assessment under Tier 4 of the points-based system (PBS).
Immigration staff guidance on applications for defined certificates of sponsorship (DCoS) under the points-based system (PBS).
Immigration staff guidance on the sponsorship priority service for Worker and Temporary Worker sponsors using the PBS.
Guidance for employers wishing to offer a job to long-resident Commonwealth citizens and other long-resident non-EEA nationals.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications for registration as a British overseas territories citizen (BOTC).
Immigration staff guidance about the registration of minors born both in and outside of the British overseas territories.
Minimum income requirement for sponsorship under the family migration route, Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report.
Immigration staff guidance on processing applications from unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) who are about to turn 18 years old.
Immigration staff guidance on the policy and procedures for tracing family members of unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC).
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Papua New Guinea for your UK visa application.
Describes how carriers must provide passenger and service information to the Home Office.
Immigration staff guidance on the tariff-expired removal scheme (TERS) for foreign offenders.
Guidance and information to support visa applications made outside the UK.
Funding instruction on UK resettlement programmes for refugees from Syria and the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.
Immigration staff guidance on considering the defence against criminal prosecution available to genuine asylum seekers.
Immigration staff guidance on how to process and assess asylum claims under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016.
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