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This video explains how to view and provide your online immigration status.
Immigration staff guidance on how to handle exemptions for visa applications made outside the UK.
Introduction to using SMS for licensed sponsors.
Guidance for Innovator Founder and Scale-up visa endorsing bodies.
This guidance explains who needs to enter the ballot before applying for a Youth Mobility Scheme visa and how the ballot system works.
Guidance for applicants outside the UK. It explains the steps to applying for and being granted a visa to live in the UK.
Guidance to register as a British citizen if you were born before 1983 to a British mother.
Information for international carriers about visa requirements for passengers travelling to the UK.
Explains how we handle data provided by financial condition supporters.
Information for applicants to the EU Settlement Scheme who are applying from outside the UK.
Information booklet for those who have registered, or are considering registering, an asylum application in the UK.
A list of endorsed funders approved by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for Global Talent.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in China for your UK visa application.
Information for applicants to the Health and Care visa.
Ukrainians already in the UK with a visa may be able to extend their stay by extending their visa or switching to another immigration route, where eligible, even if their visa does not normally allow them to do so.
How to detect basic forgeries in identity documents.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications from people applying on the basis of long residence in the UK.
Immigration staff guidance on assessing and calculating the requirements under Appendix Continuous Residence.
Immigration staff guidance on prioritisation of initial asylum decision making.
To help sponsors create and assign individual and batches of confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS).
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