Guidance and regulation

A collection of the current Immigration Rules.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 11 April 2024

Information on EU, EEA and Swiss citizens' right to work in the UK.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 19 March 2021

• Understanding your right to work in the UK: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens (accessible version)

  Introduction Following the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, and…

Immigration staff guidance on considering the English language requirement for partners and parents on the 5 year route to settlement.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 3 February 2023

• English language requirement (accessible)

  Version 8.0 About this guidance This guidance tells decision makers how to…

Guidance to apply for a letter to confirm your nationality status.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 4 October 2023

Immigration Rules archive for 16 January 2024 to 30 January 2024.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 6 February 2024

Guidance for Innovator Founder and Scale-up visa endorsing bodies.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 17 August 2023

Immigration staff guidance on assessing a person’s relationship with their partner.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 4 April 2024

Immigration staff guidance on considering family migration applications that are not required to or cannot meet the minimum income threshold.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 8 December 2021

Immigration staff guidance on the Appendix Finance requirement.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 1 December 2023

How to pay an NHS debt so it does not affect your visa application or entry to the UK.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 9 March 2023

Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications for permission to stay in the UK on the basis of private life.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 25 May 2023

Immigration Rules archive for 28 December 2023 to 15 January 2024.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 20 February 2024

Immigration staff guidance on requirements for applications by children, including those applying as child dependants.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 4 April 2024

Immigration staff guidance on how to recognise a genuine and subsisting relationship and identify a valid divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Updated: 20 June 2022

Immigration Rules archive for 13 April 2023 to 31 May 2023.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 6 June 2023

Telephone reporting allows eligible people to comply with the conditions of their immigration bail over the phone, reducing the need to attend a reporting centre in person.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 12 April 2022

Immigration Rules archive for 29 June 2023 to 16 July 2023.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 31 July 2023

Immigration Rules archive for 15 November 2023 to 27 December 2023.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 5 January 2024

Immigration staff guidance on refusal of applications for entry clearance, permission to enter or to stay in the UK.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 18 January 2024

Immigration Rules archive: 28 June 2022 to 9 August 2022.

• From: Home Office
• Updated: 22 August 2022