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UK Visas and Immigration guidance for how it handles applications made outside the UK from seafarers.
This document helps people currently applying for asylum to find support for physical or mental health needs.
Guidance for local authorities and partners on the Syrian vulnerable person resettlement programme (VPR)
Information and support for people seeking asylum about staying with friends or family.
Guidance for banks and building societies on carrying out immigration status checks on current account holders and applicants.
Immigration Rules archive for 5 October 2023 to 14 November 2023.
Immigration Rules archive for 4 February 2025 to 12 February 2025.
Immigration staff guidance on considering settlement applications by migrants who have previously held Tier 1 (General) leave.
Immigration staff guidance on what the full capacity requirement is for applications and what to consider before granting an application.
Guidance on handling visa applications made outside the UK.
Describes how the Home Office and our commissioned providers ensure the safety and wellbeing of those we are accommodating.
Immigration staff guidance on abandoned appeals.
Immigration staff guidance for detention services order 09/2016 on reports submitted under Rule 35 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001.
These factsheets provide information for EU, EEA, Swiss citizens and their family members who applied to the EU Settlement Scheme by 30 June 2021.
British and Irish citizens and people with valid immigration status escaping the violence in Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Lebanon can claim benefits from the day they arrive in the UK.
Translations of the guidance on how to visit someone in an immigration removal centre or short term holding facility, including visiting hours.
Detention services order 12/2012 about identifying and assessing the risk of a detainee seriously assaulting another.
Immigration staff guidance on applications from representatives of overseas businesses.
Immigration staff guidance on deciding applications to transfer a visa to a new biometric residence permit.
Immigration Rules archive for 8 November 2024 to 25 November 2024.
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