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Use this guide to help you apply for a British National Overseas (BNO) passport from Hong Kong.
Detention services order 11/2025 on the use of force on detailed adult individuals in immigration removal centres and other facilities.
When and how to conduct DBS checks on sponsors, and what level of check is needed.
How to ask us to review a decision we made about a Frontier Worker permit.
Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.
Guidance for licensing authorities on how to check the immigration status of people who apply for a taxi or private hire licence.
Immigration staff guidance on considering a previous breach of immigration laws.
We continue to work at pace to assist people facing serious risk in Afghanistan.
Immigration staff guidance for detention services order 09/2016 on reports submitted under Rule 35 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001.
This guidance tells His Majesty’s Passport Office staff how to deal with duplicate passport applications that we find in the passport application system.
Immigration staff guidance on assessing asylum claims under the streamlined asylum process.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Bangladesh for your UK visa application.
Visa data by local authority in separate tables for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Immigration staff guidance on International Forces and International Civilian Employees.
Staff guidance on how to consider applications for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA).
Information about the arrivals and processing centre at Manston.
Immigration staff guidance on considering applications from seamen arriving in the UK.
Immigration staff guidance on children staying with or joining a close relative.
Immigration staff guidance on the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS).
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