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Immigration staff guidance on how to consider a person’s domicile based on assessing citizenship claims and applications.
Immigration staff guidance on the requirements for naturalisation as a British overseas territories citizen (BOTC) under section 18(1) and section 18(2).
Immigration staff guidance on non-compliant asylum and human rights claims.
Asylum support policy bulletins for UK Visas and Immigration staff.
Reference guide with explanatory notes on issues and classifications.
Part 9 of the Immigration Rules archive: 13 December 2012 to 30 January 2013.
Objection and appeals notice guidance for drivers who are found with clandestine entrants in their vehicles by UK Visas and Immigration.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications under the interpretation acts.
Immigration staff guidance on how to deal with international travel ban cases.
Immigration Rules archive: 19 November 2015 to 31 December 2015, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 19 May 2016 to 23 November 2016, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive for 19 February 2024 to 21 February 2024.
Immigration Rules archive: 17 March 2015 to 18 March 2015, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 15 October 2015 to 11 November 2015, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 14 January to 25 February 2014, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 12 October 2015 to 14 October 2015, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 12 December 2016 to 31 December 2016, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 11 January 2018 to 14 January 2018, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 10 August 2017 to 27 December 2017, an archived document.
This document is a consolidated version of the Immigration Rules and is now archived.
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