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Windrush: applicant information

Information for applicants to the Windrush Scheme and Windrush Compensation Scheme.

• From: Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 9 April 2019
• Last updated: 29 December 2023 — See all updates

If you’re settled in the UK but do not have a document to prove it, you may be eligible to apply to the Windrush Scheme.

Find out about the Windrush Scheme and how you can apply for a document to prove you can live and work in the UK. It’s free to apply.

You may also be able to apply for compensation through the Windrush Compensation Scheme if you suffered a loss because you could not show you had the right to live in the UK.

Windrush Scheme

• Windrush Scheme: get proof of your right to be in the UK
• Windrush Scheme application form (UK)
  • 29 November 2024
  • Form
• Windrush Scheme: full eligibility details
  • 1 November 2024
  • Guidance
• Windrush Scheme: support in urgent and exceptional circumstances
  • 23 August 2022
  • Guidance

Windrush Compensation Scheme

Documents related to the Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Act 2020 can be found on the Parliament website. The Act gives the Home Office parliamentary financial authority to make payments under the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

• Apply to the Windrush Compensation Scheme
• Windrush Compensation Scheme: claim forms and guidance
  • 15 November 2024
  • Form
• Windrush Compensation Scheme: full rules
  • 24 October 2023
  • Guidance
• Windrush Compensation Scheme: privacy information notice
  • 31 August 2023
  • Guidance
• Windrush Compensation Scheme: impact assessment
  • 6 February 2020
  • Impact assessment
• Windrush Compensation Scheme: Equality Impact Assessment (EIA)
  • 28 March 2022
  • Impact assessment
• Windrush Compensation Scheme
  • 3 September 2021
  • Consultation outcome
• Windrush Compensation Scheme: State Pension solution
  • 29 December 2023
  • Guidance

Windrush schemes for overseas applicants

• Applying to the Windrush schemes from overseas
  • 1 November 2024
  • Guidance

Guidance for landlords, employers and NHS staff

• Right to rent checks: long-resident non-EEA nationals and Windrush generation
  • 9 April 2019
  • Guidance
• Right to work checks: long-resident non-EEA nationals and Windrush generation
  • 9 April 2019
  • Guidance
• ‘Windrush generation’ guidance for NHS staff and NHS care providers
  • 31 October 2018
  • Guidance

Promotional material

• Windrush Help Team: posters and booklets
  • 24 September 2020
  • Promotional material

Published 9 April 2019
Last updated 29 December 2023 + show all updates

1. 29 December 2023

   Information on the State Pension solution added.

2. 17 April 2023

   Removed email address to sign up for email updates about the Windrush Scheme and Windrush Compensation Scheme.

3. 28 March 2022

   Windrush Compensation Scheme Equality Impact Assessment added.

4. 4 August 2021

   Added a section on Windrush schemes for overseas applicants.

5. 2 July 2020

   Added information about the Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Act 2020 which received Royal Assent on 8 June 2020.

6. 16 June 2020

   Collection page updated throughout: introduction and a link to new guide on how to apply to the Windrush Compensation Scheme added.

7. 20 March 2020

   Added the oral statement on the Windrush Lessons Learned Review and information about the Windrush Lessons Learned Review Independent Advisory Group to the section "Windrush review".

8. 6 February 2020

   Impact Assessment for the implementation stage of the Windrush Compensation Scheme added.

9. 30 September 2019

   Added a link to the new guide: Windrush scheme: prove your right to be in the UK.

10. 27 August 2019

    Windrush Compensation Scheme claim forms and guidance and privacy information notice added.

11. 9 April 2019

    First published.