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Detention services order 07/2016 about the Home Office’s responsibility to complete a risk assessment before restraining a detainee under escort.
Sets out the standards that immigration advisers should meet to be considered competent.
Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.
Step-by-step guide to applying for additional services and making renewal applications.
This guidance explains full details of the Windrush Compensation Scheme.
Immigration staff guidance on prioritisation of initial asylum decision making.
Immigration staff guidance on making a decision about reconsidering an application.
A step-by-step guide to creating a confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS). This document should be viewed with the SMS guide 4.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Russia for your UK visa application.
A list of the immigration offences that can prevent you from getting a sponsorship licence.
Essential resources and information on registration, assessments, and professional standards to support your journey as an immigration adviser.
Immigration staff guidance on processing applications for an administrative review.
The following assistance is available to education institutions that hold a Student or Child Student route licence.
Immigration staff guidance on protection or human rights based further submissions.
Who can apply to the scheme, how the application process works, and the checks that authorities must complete.
Guidance for Border Force officers dealing with EU, EEA and Swiss passengers and their family members who arrive at the UK border.
Sample level 2 immigration assessments from the Immigration Advice Authority.
Immigration staff guidance on false representations, false documents, false information or failure to disclose a relevant fact where refusal is discretionary.
Immigration staff guidance on considering applications on human rights medical grounds when the applicant is already here.
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