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Casework instructions for how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications for citizenship.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications under the interpretation acts.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications from protectorates and protected states.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications for British passports.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decide the legal parentage of children from surrogacy.
Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides on applications from people who are stateless.
Guidance on how arrangements for Tier 2 of the points-based system operate.
This document is a consolidated version of the Immigration Rules and is now archived.
Immigration Rules archive: 6 April 2013 to 30 April 2013
Information about the 5 July 2013 High Court judgment on the minimum income for spouses, partners and children applying to stay or settle in the UK.
Immigration Rules archive: 30 December 2013 to 13 January 2014, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 25 February to 6 April 2014, an archived document.
Immigration Rules archive: 1 January 2017, an archived document.
Immigration staff guidance about British subjects and how to consider applications to acquire that status.
Biographies of the members of the Windrush Cross-Government Working Group.
Immigration staff guidance on how surrogacy in the UK affects a child’s claim to British nationality.
Immigration Rules archive: 19 November 2015 to 31 December 2015, an archived document.
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