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Immigration directorate instructions

Staff guidance, instructions and country information

Chapter 1 - General provisions
Chapter 1A - Applications
Chapter 2 - Visitors
Chapter 3 - Students
Chapter 4 - Permit free employment (short term) and training
Chapter 5 - Employment
Chapter 6 - Businessmen, self-employed persons, investors, writers, composers and artists
Chapter 6A - Settlement
Chapter 7 - Other categories
Chapter 8 - Appendix FM (family members)
Chapter 8 - Family members transitional arrangements
Chapter 9 - General ground for the refusal of entry clearance, leave to enter or variation of leave to enter or remain
Chapter 10 - Police registration
Chapter 12 - Appeals
Chapter 13 - Deportation
Chapter 14 - Persons exempt from control
Chapter 15 - Armed forces
Chapter 16 - Seamen and aircrew
Chapter 17 - Employment outside the rules
Chapter 19 - Miscellaneous caseworking subjects
Chapter 20 - Evasion of control
Chapter 22 - Passports and travel documents
Chapter 24 - Disclosure of information
Chapter 25 - Implementing the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Chapter 27 - Judicial review
Chapter 31 - Detention and detention policy in port cases
Chapter 32 - Port cases involving prosecution
Chapter 33 - The Immigration (Carriers' Liability) Act 1987
Chapter 35 - On entry statistics & returns

This page lists the chapters of the immigration directorate instructions or 'IDI'. These are internal guidance for UK Border Agency staff on the handling of applications.