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Immigration staff guidance on the Ukraine Scheme.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in August 2025.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides on applications from citizens of the UK and colonies.
Funding instruction on UK resettlement programmes for refugees from Syria and the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.
Information for immigration advisers on signposting and referring clients.
This guidance explains what a specimen passport is and how His Majesty’s Passport Office deals with requests for specimen passports.
Immigration staff guidance on UK Visas and Immigration's powers to search people and seize items.
Detention services order 11/2014 about security information reports.
Guidance for local authorities and partners on the Syrian vulnerable person resettlement programme (VPR)
Immigration staff guidance on the process of the statement of evidence form ‘opt out’ pilot.
Find out how to apply for a UK visa if you are in St Helena, Ascension or Tristan da Cunha.
Immigration staff guidance on assessing whether someone is excluded from Asylum or Humanitarian Protection.
Immigration staff guidance on refusing crew members.
How immigration staff should make asylum decisions under streamlined asylum processing.
List of legacy authorised organisations for a Start-up visa
Guidance about Article 10 and 20 residence cards.
Immigration staff guidance on free movement rights of direct family members of European Economic Area (EEA) and Swiss nationals.
Immigration staff guidance on the Dublin III Regulation’s rules for referral, consideration of responsibility and the transfer process to responsible states.
Immigration staff guidance on actions to take when an asylum seeker reports an incident of domestic abuse while their claim is being considered.
Tips from the Immigration Advice Authority on how to write a complaint letter to an immigration adviser.
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