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How you contact UK Visas and Immigration is changing.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
All visitors, students and work applicants can now get visa decisions more quickly.
Guidance on Competence 2017 and Electronic Application Forms
Joint working between Border Force and the NCA stopped huge cocaine haul.
We welcome expressions of interest to deliver immigration and asylum services in London and/or Kent.
Asylum report into quality of legal services is welcomed by Legal Aid Agency (LAA).
Business travellers and frequent visitors from 16 countries to benefit from faster entry to the UK as Registered Traveller Service grows
The Home Office is making changes to the Immigration Rules affecting a number of categories.
Written ministerial statement by Edward Timpson about a safeguarding strategy for unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee children.
Members of a gang from Salford have been jailed after attempting to smuggle Vietnamese migrants into the UK through the Eurotunnel.
Home Secretary and Archbishop of Canterbury launch new scheme to encourage community groups to sponsor a refugee family.
The Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner's (the OISC) new code of standards took effect on 1 April 2016.
The Home Office has published its response to two reviews of Tier 2 policy, undertaken by the Migration Advisory Committee.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
The MAC has published its report on whether nurses should be retained on the UK shortage occupation list.
Here are the documents we recommend you provide when applying for your Tier 4 student visa.
Confirmation of new application and service fees announced by UK Visas and Immigration.
An attempt to smuggle more than 2.5 million cigarettes into the UK has been prevented by Border Force officers at the Port of Purfleet.
The Home Office response to the Children’s Commissioner’s report on the impact on children of the minimum income threshold for sponsoring family migrants.
The Immigration Health Surcharge is to be extended to Australians and New Zealanders who spend more than six months in the UK.
The Home Office has today announced the expansion of its Registered Traveller service to Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
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