Policy & Law

This section provides details of the policy and guidance that our staff follow. We publish this information as part of our commitment to freedom of information. There are few documents that we classify as restricted. This means it has sensitive information in it. In these circumstances we either remove the sensitive information from the document or, on some occasions, we don't make the documents available on this website.

Immigration Rules
A consolidated version of the current immigration rules published on the UK Border Agency website.

Entry Clearance Guidance (ECG)
This section of our website contains guidance for our staff on the handling of entry clearance applications received overseas.

These are live documents and are constantly being reviewed and amended.

Disclaimer
This section's content is for information only and cannot be relied upon to determine the outcome of an individual application, which will be considered on its own facts. No guarantee can be given as to the accuracy of the content of this section.


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