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Guidance for licensing authorities on how to check the immigration status of people who apply for a taxi or private hire licence.
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with passport applications for customers that hold British citizenship.
Staff guidance on how to consider applications for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA).
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Afghanistan for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Ukraine for your UK visa application.
Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.
Immigration staff guidance providing historical background information on nationality and help with assessing citizenship claims.
Sample level 3 immigration assessments from the Immigration Advice Authority.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Canada for your UK visa application.
Immigration staff guide for how UK Visas and Immigration considers applications to enter or remain in the UK as a dependant family member of a Tier 1 migrant.
Detention services order 2/2017 about removal from association and temporary confinement.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in August 2025.
Immigration Rules archive for 18 December 2024 to 1 January 2025.
Detention services order 03/2015 about handling complaints in immigration centres.
Information on EU, EEA and Swiss citizens' right to work in the UK.
Detention services order 05/2018 about Home Office policy on detainees having mobile phones and cameras in removal centres.
Immigration staff guidance on the policy and process to follow when human rights issues are raised alongside an asylum claim or are inherent in that claim.
Immigration staff guidance on drafting, implementing and serving asylum decisions.
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