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Home Office operating standards for the detention services escort process.
Immigration staff guidance on handling requests for priority treatment of citizenship applications.
Detention services order 09/2007 about escorting detained individuals with cash.
Immigration staff guidance on processing applications from people who have previously renounced British citizenship and have applied to register as a citizen.
Support for Ethiopian nationals returning from the UK (reintegration services).
Support for Ghanaian nationals returning from the UK (reintegration services).
Support for Jamaican nationals returning from the UK (reintegration services).
Support for Nigerian nationals returning from the UK (reintegration services).
This guidance tells caseworkers how to consider applications to enter, remain or settle in the UK under the Scale-up route.
Immigration staff guidance on considering the defence against criminal prosecution available to genuine asylum seekers.
Immigration staff guidance on whether to refuse an application where a person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement to provide information.
Immigration staff guidance on applications for a purpose not covered by the Immigration Rules.
Immigration staff guidance on the tariff-expired removal scheme (TERS) for foreign offenders.
Information for French nationals travelling to the UK with pets.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Botswana for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Guatemala for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Sudan for your UK visa application.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in the UK if you are a Hong Kong British National (Overseas).
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.
Use this form if you are from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Libya, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen, and you applied for asylum on or after 28 June 2022.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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