We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Search for someone to help you with advice and applications to stay in the UK - free and paid-for services, adviser levels 1, 2, 3 and complaints.
You can get immigration advice from an immigration adviser if you need…
Immigration advisers are only allowed to give you advice on things they’re…
When you hire an immigration adviser: find out how much they charge and if…
You can complain to the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner…
We are stepping up action to support regulatory action and prosecution of unscrupulous lawyers, with a new dedicated taskforce and tougher sentences.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
A bogus immigration lawyer with no licence to practise has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for exploiting at least 19 victims for huge financial gain.
Three suspected fraudulent immigration lawyers have been arrested in Greater Manchester following a Home Office raid on Wednesday 24 January.
Guidance from the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (the OISC) in relation to its regulation and solicitors.
The Lord Chancellor has written to the Chair of the Solicitor’s Regulation Authority following the Mail’s investigation.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
Employment Tribunal decision.
Apply to come to the UK as a representative of a news agency, newspaper or news agency and you’re from outside the EEA and Switzerland - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, extend and switch.
Judge says defendant gave 'some of the most persistent displays of dishonesty on oath', he had seen in a long time.
Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) regulates immigration advisers; ensuring they are fit, competent and act in their clients' best interests
Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) regulates immigration advisers; ensuring they are fit, competent and act in their clients’ best interests OISC is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office .
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).