Guidance

Returns by UK letter and emergency travel document: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on how UK Visas and Immigration use EU and Chicago letters to make enforced removals.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 13 September 2013
• Last updated: 30 December 2020 — See all updates

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Returns by UK letter and emergency travel document

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff use UK letters to facilitate returns including enforced removals.

Where available, the person’s original travel document (usually their passport) must always be used for enforcing their removal. Where this is not available, people can be returned, removed or deported on the following types of document:

• an Emergency Travel Document (ETD)
• a United Kingdom letter (UKL)
• a Chicago Convention Letter (CCL). This is also known as a Chicago convention document (CCD)

This guidance was previously called documents for enforced removals.

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Published 13 September 2013
Last updated 30 December 2020 + show all updates

1. 30 December 2020

   Updated guidance following EU transition.

2. 20 January 2016

   Updated guidance.

3. 21 May 2015

   Updated guidance.

4. 20 April 2015

   Updated document on enforced removals

5. 5 February 2015

   Updated guidance.

6. 13 September 2013

   First published.