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Immigration Rules archive: 10 January 2019 to 20 January 2019
Immigration Rules archive for 13 February 2025 to 17 February 2025.
Immigration Rules archive for 16 July 2025 to 16 July 2025.
Immigration Rules archive: 19 November 2015 to 31 December 2015, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 28 August 2018 to 31 October 2018
Immigration Rules archive for 30 December 2025 to 31 December 2025.
This document is a consolidated version of the Immigration Rules and is now archived.
Immigration Rules archive: 6 April 2015 to 23 April 2015, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 6 April 2016 to 18 May 2016, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 6 April 2018 to 5 July 2018.
Immigration Rules archive: 6 April 2019 to 21 April 2019.
Immigration staff guidance on how to apply the home detention curfew (HDC) scheme to foreign offenders.
Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules published on 11 October 2021.
Immigration staff guidance on how decisions are made about applications for new entrepreneurs seeking to establish a business in the UK for the first time.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider requests to register individuals who are stateless as British citizens.
Immigration staff guidance on the procedure for securing seized or detained items in a tamper evident bag (TEB).
Guidance about how immigration law applies to overseas surrogacy.
Guide for employers on the civil penalties for employing illegal workers.
Immigration staff guidance detailing the policy, processes and procedures to follow when receiving an asylum claim from families with a child under 18.
Immigration staff guidance explaining what to do when a passport is received as part of a nationality application.
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