Guidance

Immigration Enforcement criminal investigation criteria

Guidance on how UK Visas and Immigration decide which cases enforcement and investigation teams take up for criminal investigation.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 31 January 2017
• Last updated: 9 March 2017 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 19 September 2017

This guidance has been withdrawn and has not been replaced.

Documents

Immigration Enforcement criminal investigation adoption criteria

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Details

This guidance includes information on:

• Immigration Enforcement’s strategic objectives
• adoption criteria for high harm and volume immigration crime
• adoption criteria for serious and organised immigration crime
• Immigration Enforcement’s case adoption process
• contact points for referring cases to Immigration Enforcement
• offences commonly encountered by immigration officers

Published 31 January 2017

Last updated 9 March 2017 + show all updates

1. 9 March 2017

   Updated guidance.

2. 31 January 2017

   First published.