Resource Type: Key Documents

Updated to reflect the change to the Suitability Rule changes relating to immigration bail and the Exceptions for Overstayers provisions.

Updated the Deportation on conducive grounds Immigration Act 1971 and UK Borders Act 2007 to clarify that the threshold for automatic deportation applies to suspended sentences given following a conviction […]

Updated to reflect that where an application meets the Exception for overstayers (SUI13.1), it must no longer be refused solely on the basis that the applicant is on immigration bail […]

We have updated this guidance in the following sections: Who are direct family members, to make it clear the reference to being aged 21 relates to the direct descendant, not […]

Updates have been made to references to immigration bail under suitability provisions.

Removed MedCity and NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator from the list of legacy innovator endorsing bodies. They no longer operate as endorsing bodies for these visas.

Added India to the list of countries for the Diplomatic Visa Arrangement (DVA).

Updated in line with Immigration Rules changes.

Updated to add neonatal leave as an allowable period of absence for the purposes of meeting the earnings requirement for both permission to stay and settlement.