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Immigration Rules archive for 5 August 2025 to 5 August 2025.
Immigration Rules archive: 4 December 2019 to 31 December 2019.
Immigration Rules archive: 31 October 2019 to 3 December 2019.
Immigration Rules archive: 24 August 2020 to 4 October 2020
Immigration Rules archive: 21 May 2021 to 30 June 2021
Immigration Rules archive: 15 January 2018 to 5 April 2018, an archived document.
Detention service order 07/2012 on medical appointments outside the detention estate.
Immigration staff guidance on managing foreign national offenders under 18 years old who are being deported.
Reference guide with explanatory notes on issues and classifications.
Immigration staff guidance on how to liaise with the National Crime Agency (NCA).
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).
Chapter 5, section 13 of the immigration directorate instructions deals with applications to enter the UK on the international graduate scheme.
Immigration staff guidance on dates of birth and the circumstances in which they may be changed.
Immigration staff guidance to the PACE (1984) Order 2013 for criminal investigators in Immigration Enforcement (IE).
List of custody orders that are valid in the UK for immigration purposes.
Country of origin information about how UK Visas and Immigration decide applications.
Immigration staff guidance on completing the parole board information form.
Immigration staff guidance on processing and deciding asylum claims, including for those who conduct interviews.
Guidance for people who wish to apply to the Windrush Schemes from overseas
Casework instructions for how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications for citizenship.
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