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This collection brings together guidance about visiting the UK used by UK Visas and Immigration.
Visit for tourism, business or a short stay (up to 6 months), airport transit visas
Make a request for a social visit to someone in a prison in England and Wales
Immigration staff guidance about the different visitor categories for visiting the UK and how UK Visas and Immigration makes decisions on visitor cases.
Pentonville is a men’s prison and young offender institution in the London Borough of Islington, North London.
Apply for help with the cost of prison visits, including travel to the prison, accommodation, meals.
Maidstone is a prison in Maidstone, Kent, for foreign national men.
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