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Immigration staff guidance on dealing with family applications.
July 2012 Immigration directorate instructions Chapter 8, section FM 3.1:…
Immigration directorate instructions Chapter 8, section FM 3.2 - children…
Immigration staff guidance on processing applications for a fee waiver.
Version 7.0 About this guidance This guidance tells you how to consider…
Statement and consent form to inform UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) that you are no longer in your marriage or civil partnership.
Statement and consent form to tell UK Visas and Immigration that you are no longer in your marriage or civil partnership.
Chapter 8, section 1 of the immigration directorate instructions deals with spouses under the family members transitional arrangements.
Immigration staff guidance on considering applications from Commonwealth citizens with a grandparent born in the UK.
Information about applications submitted as the family member of a person who is living permanently in the UK.
Immigration staff guidance on considering applications from dependants of part 5 migrants.
Immigration staff guidance on investigating sham marriages.
Sets out the Immigration Rules that the government intends to apply from July 2012 to non-EEA family members.
Minimum income requirement for sponsorship under the family migration route, Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report.
Immigration staff guidance on routing and processing applications from customers applying for a visa in a marriage and family route (CARS (FM)).
Information about the 5 July 2013 High Court judgment on the minimum income for spouses, partners and children applying to stay or settle in the UK.
Equality impact assessment and impact assessment for the English language requirement for partners used by UK Visas and Immigration.
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