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Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications from people applying on the basis of long residence in the UK.
Use this step-by-step manual if you are a sponsor who is applying for a defined certificate of sponsorship (CoS)
Immigration staff guidance on application forms and procedures for immigration applications and claims.
If you are in Hong Kong, our guides explain which visa is right for you and how to apply.
Step-by-step guide to applying for additional services and making renewal applications.
This video explains how to view and confirm someone's right to rent.
Immigration staff guidance on criminal history for entry clearance applications in the UK.
Video explaining UK Visas and Immigration's processing times.
Guidance to register for British citizenship if you are a stateless person.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications for permission to stay in the UK on the basis of private life.
Information on the Immigration Advice Authority's revised Continuing Professional Development scheme.
How to detect basic forgeries in identity documents.
Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.
Immigration advisers who have been prohibited or suspended by the Immigration Services Tribunal.
This code of practice sets out the prescribed checks that employers should conduct to avoid a civil penalty in the event of illegal working.
Immigration staff guidance on deportation on the ground it is conducive to the public good.
To help sponsors create and assign individual and batches of confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS).
List of authorised endorsing bodies for Global Talent.
Immigration staff guidance on considering applications for further leave to remain made by applicants without valid leave.
How to apply to become a British citizen again after giving up (renouncing) citizenship.
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