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A collection of the current Immigration Rules.
Immigration staff guidance on considering the English language requirement for partners and parents on the 5 year route to settlement.
Version 8.0 About this guidance This guidance tells decision makers how to…
Immigration Rules archive for 8 January 2026 to 4 March 2026.
Guidance to apply for a letter to confirm your nationality status.
Immigration staff guidance on assessing a person’s relationship with their partner.
Immigration staff guidance on considering family migration applications that are not required to or cannot meet the minimum income threshold.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications for permission to stay in the UK on the basis of private life.
Guidance for Innovator Founder and Scale-up visa endorsing bodies.
Immigration staff guidance on the Appendix Finance requirement.
Immigration staff guidance on requirements for applications by children, including those applying as child dependants.
How to pay an NHS debt so it does not affect your visa application or entry to the UK.
Immigration Rules archive for 1 January 2026 to 7 January 2026.
Information on EU, EEA and Swiss citizens' right to work in the UK.
Immigration Rules archive for 6 June 2024 to 9 September 2024.
Immigration staff guidance on children staying with or joining a close relative.
Immigration Rules archive for 10 October 2024 to 7 November 2024.
Immigration staff guidance on how to recognise a genuine and subsisting relationship and identify a valid divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership.
Immigration staff guidance on refusal of applications for entry clearance, permission to enter or to stay in the UK.
Immigration Rules archive for 13 August 2025 to 3 September 2025.
Immigration Rules archive for 11 March 2024 to 3 April 2024.
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