Immigration controls
When do you need permission to come into, and stay in, the UK? What you can do if you would like your partner or members of your family to join you in Britain.
The Right to Remain Toolkit is a guide to the UK immigration and asylum system. It gives an overview of the legal system and procedures, with detailed information on rights and options at key stages, and actions you can take in support of your claim, or to help someone else.
Information on when you will need immigration or nationality advice and details of organisations that can help with an immigration or nationality problem.
Information on the different types of visas for coming to the UK to study, work, visit or join family.
Contains information about visa requirements and explains how you can make an application inside or outside the UK.
Information for international students studying or planning to study in the UK, their family, teachers and other advisers. Includes latest news and current events, finance, immigration and working in the UK.
Explains what type of immigration permission allows you to study in the UK, and where to get advice.
Information about the immigration rights of migrant domestic workers. Explains how to gain entry to work in the UK on an overseas Domestic Workers Visa, how long you can stay, whether you can extend your visa, whether your married partner or dependent children can join you, whether you can change your employer, whether you can apply to settle in the UK and what to do if your employer keeps your passport and refuses to return it to you.
What the immigration rules say about adopted children coming to join their parents or a parent who is settled in the UK.
On 12 May 2016, the Immigration Act 2016 came into force, making it officially UK law. It’s a massive new law and brings with it major revisions of the immigration system. Here are the key changes in plain-English.
The invasion of Ukraine has had a devastating impact on many people. This page provides information on any support that is available to help Ukrainians who have family in the UK, don't have family in the UK, are already in the UK or who need to travel to UK urgently for compassionate reasons. There is also infomation if you are British and in Ukraine and/or need a British passport. You can also stay up to date on the invasion through email updates.
A guide for migrants by migrants to help you access services, build community, and take care of yourself before and after securing immigration status.
