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
Guidance for employers on how to sponsor a worker on the Scale-up immigration route.
Information to help employers and sponsors get the answers they need from the business helpdesk.
Immigration staff guidance on application forms and procedures for immigration applications and claims.
Where to get tested for tuberculosis (TB) in Malaysia for your UK visa application.
Immigration staff guidance on considering applications for further leave to remain made by applicants without valid leave.
Guidance setting out the standards that immigration advisers should meet to be considered competent.
Immigration staff guidance on family reunion applications.
Immigration staff guidance on the knowledge of language and life in the UK requirement.
Guidance for sponsors on sponsoring a seasonal worker.
Immigration staff guidance on Immigration Rules 345A-D, relating to inadmissibility of asylum claims and the Home Office processes supporting those rules.
Guidance for applicants already in the UK. It explains the steps to applying for and being granted permission to live in the UK.
A list of endorsed funders approved by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for Global Talent.
Immigration Rules archive for 11 April 2024 to 15 May 2024.
A list of the immigration offences that can prevent you from getting a sponsorship licence.
Immigration staff guidance on assessing and calculating the continuous residence requirements under Appendix Continuous Residence.
Guidance for Innovator Founder and Scale-up visa endorsing bodies.
Immigration staff guidance on processing applications for a fee waiver from overseas Human Rights-based applications (Article 8).
Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.
Immigration staff guidance on assessing a person’s relationship with their partner.
If you are in Hong Kong, our guides explain which visa is right for you and how to apply.
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).