Immigration News & Updates

• Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: workers
  List of organisations licensed to sponsor workers on the Worker and Temporary Worker immigration routes.
• Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
  List of institutions licensed to sponsor migrant students under the Student and Child Student routes.
• Migration transparency data
  Data on Border Force, UK Visas and Immigration, Immigration Enforcement and Passports, Citizenship and Civil Registration performance.
• Guidance: China: country policy and information notes
  Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.
• Guidance: UK visa requirements: list for carriers
  Information for international carriers about visa requirements for passengers travelling to the UK.
• Guidance: Immigration Rules archive: 11 November 2025 to 24 November 2025
  Immigration Rules archive for 11 November 2025 to 25 November 2025.
• Guidance: Unaccompanied asylum seeking children and leaving care: funding instructions
  Instructions to local authorities about funding for the support and care of former and unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC).
• Guidance: Lapsing leave and returning residents: caseworker guidance
  Immigration staff guidance on processing returning resident applications.
• Guidance: Leave outside the Immigration Rules: caseworker guidance
  Immigration staff guidance on dealing with applications to grant leave outside the Immigration Rules.
• Guidance: Long residence: caseworker guidance
  Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications from people applying on the basis of long residence in the UK.