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A collection of the current Immigration Rules.
Guidance to apply for a letter to confirm your nationality status.
October 2023 Introduction This guide is intended to assist those who…
Immigration staff guidance on considering the English language requirement for partners and parents on the 5 year route to settlement.
Version 8.0 About this guidance This guidance tells decision makers how to…
Immigration Rules archive for 2 April 2025 to 8 April 2025.
Guidance for Innovator Founder and Scale-up visa endorsing bodies.
Information on EU, EEA and Swiss citizens' right to work in the UK.
Immigration staff guidance on considering family migration applications that are not required to or cannot meet the minimum income threshold.
Immigration staff guidance on assessing a person’s relationship with their partner.
Immigration Rules archive for 12 March 2025 to 1 April 2025.
Immigration staff guidance on how to recognise a genuine and subsisting relationship and identify a valid divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership.
How to pay an NHS debt so it does not affect your visa application or entry to the UK.
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications for permission to stay in the UK on the basis of private life.
Immigration staff guidance on the Appendix Finance requirement.
Immigration Rules archive for 11 March 2025 to 11 March 2025.
Immigration staff guidance on requirements for applications by children, including those applying as child dependants.
Telephone reporting allows eligible people to comply with the conditions of their immigration bail over the phone, reducing the need to attend a reporting centre in person.
Immigration staff guidance on children staying with or joining a close relative.
Immigration staff guidance on applications from customers applying for a visa under Appendix Family Reunion (Protection).
Immigration Rules archive for 11 April 2024 to 15 May 2024.
Immigration Rules archive for 11 March 2024 to 3 April 2024.
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