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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.

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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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Updates to this page

Published 13 September 2013
Last updated 30 December 2020 + show all updates
  1. Updated guidance following EU transition.

  2. Updated guidance.

  3. Updated guidance.

  4. Updated document on enforced removals

  5. Updated guidance.

  6. First published.

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