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Failure to provide required information and attend interview: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on whether to refuse an application where a person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement to provide information.

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Suitability: failure to provide required information, attend interview

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff consider whether to refuse an application for entry clearance, permission to enter or permission to stay on suitability grounds where that person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a reasonable requirement to provide information, attend an interview, provide biometrics, undergo a medical examination or provide a medical report.

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Updates to this page

Published 1 December 2020
Last updated 20 June 2022 + show all updates
  1. Updated guidance with reference to ‘an application on grounds of private life under paragraphs 276ADE to 276DH’ replaced by ‘Appendix Private Life’ and ‘Appendix Settlement Family Life’ added in the ‘Introduction’ section.

  2. Guidance updated with revised links.

  3. Minor amendment to the introduction to clarify that some of this guidance applies to family reunion applications.

  4. First published.

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