Entry clearance guidance: A-D
This page contains the alphabetical index of our entry clearance guidance, covering the letters A-D.
A
Academic visitors - VAT12
Academic Technology Approved Scheme (ATAS) - STY04
Acceptance of an application form - ECB10
Accommodation - MAA
Actors - See Entertainers
Adoption - SET07.18-23
De facto adoptions - SET7.23
Entrustment orders - SET7.19
Interim adoption orders - SET7.20
Agencies
Bogus employment - WRK3
AIDS/HIV - MED12-13
Aircrew - CRM2
Airline liaison officers - ECB21.2-3
Airline staff
Airside transit, direct - VAT8.14-25
Ancestry, UK - WRK2.3
Appeals - APL
Process flowcharts for family visits, settlement and non-settlement - APL01.1
Appeal procedures - APL01
Appeal determinations and procedures for posts - APL02
Appeals on human rights grounds - APL04.2
Appeals on race discrimination grounds - APL04.3
Categories which have full appeal rights - APL03
Allowed appeals - APL02.2-3
Appeal dismissed - APL02.4
Appeal rights for visitors - VAT01.8, VAT02.6
Appellants seeking admission - VAT22
Applications
Acceptance of - ECB10
Appropriate post to apply - ECB5
Assessing an application - ECB10.11
From two or more persons - ECB10
From Ministries of Foreign Affairs - ECB10
For exempt visas - EXM
For second valid entry clearance - ECB10
Checking - ECB10
Taking a decision - ECB10.10
Approved Destination Scheme - VAT19
Archaeological excavations - VAT21
Armed Forces - ARF
Who is exempt - ARF1
Course F - ARF4.1
HM Armed Forces member - ARF5
HM Armed Forces member's dependants - ARF6
International Armed Forces member - ARF16
International Armed Forces members' dependants - ARF18.1
Assisted Voluntary Returns (AVRs) - RFL05.10
Attendance allowance - MAA
Attending trials in the UK - VAT28
Auditions - VAT18
Authorisation of entry clearance and certificates of entitlement - ECB10.10
Authorities not recognised by HMG - ECB08.2
B
Barristers - VAT11.9
Biometrics - ECB01.3
Biometric Residence Permits - ECB14
Refusals - RFL11
Bogus passports - ECB08.1
British citizenship (right of abode) - ROA
Renunciation - ROA12
British Council - STY03
British dependent territories citizens, entry to UK - ECB04.2
British nationals (overseas), entry to UK - ECB04.2
British overseas citizens, entry to UK - ECB04.2
British protected persons, entry to UK - ECB04.2
British subjects, entry to UK - ECB04.2
Burden of proof
Business persons
Admission to establish/join a business - VAT11.9
Admission under EC associate agreements (certain East European nationals only) - WRK4
Entrepreneurs - Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) policy guidance, VAT11.9
Innovators - VAT11.9
Investors - VAT11.9, Tier 1 (Investor) policy guidance
Business visitors - VAT11
Academic visitors - VAT12
Dentists undertaking clinical observation posts - VAT16
Doctors coming for PLAB tests - VAT15
Doctors undertaking clinical attachments - VAT16
Religious workers - VAT14
Visiting professors - VAT13
C
Cancelling entry clearances - ECB18
Cancelling vignettes - ECB18
Case notes, release to solicitors, applicants, sponsors etc - RFL14
Certificate of entitlement - ROA
Appeal rights - ROA21
Cancelling a certificate of entitlement - ROA17
Dual nationals and certificates of entitlement - ROA18
Explanatory leaflet - ROA22
Issuing a certificate of entitlement - ROA15 & ROA16
Referring a certificate of entitlement application - ROA3
Refusal wordings - ROA20
When can't a certificate of entitlement be issued - ROA14
Who qualifies for a certificate of entitlement - ROA13
Certificates of identity issued by the UK Border Agency - See Certificates of travel
Certificates of travel issued by UK Border Agency - ECB8.13.7
Changing status while in UK ('switching') - ECB15.2
Channel Islands - CTA 3
Charges for telegram referral - ECB6.5
Charity (voluntary) workers - PBS
Child benefit - MAA
Child minders - VAT24
Child spouses - SET3.5
Children
Settlement/adoption - SET7
At school in the UK - VAT9, VAT3
Visitors - VAT3
Visitors sponsored by charities - VAT4
China: Approved Destination Scheme - VAT19
Civil partnership, validity of - SET4.14
Civil partnership, proposed - SET4
Civil partnership visits (not settlement) - VAT6
Coaches (sports) - VAT17
Collective passports - ECB8.6
Common Travel Area - CTA1, CTA
Commonwealth countries, issues of visas on behalf of
Processess - ECO Toolkit
Communicable diseases
Refusal of entry clearance - MED1, MED19
Visitors for private medical treatment - VAT7
Compensation claims - ECO Toolkit
Complaints against the UK Border Agency - ECO Toolkit
Composers - PBS
Computer companies, visits by representatives of - VAT11.2
Consular fees - fees table
Details (legislation governing) - ECB6.1
Control Authorities Working Group (CAWG) - ECB21.6
Correspondence courses - VAT9
Council tax benefit - MAA
Couriers, diplomatic
Considered as visitors - EXM
Course F - ARF4
Court reporters - VAT27
Crew members - CRM
Crown Dependencies - CTA3 and CTA4
Criminal conviction, refusal of entry clearance - RFL10
Cruise passengers - VAT8.13
Currency of fees - ECB6.3
Custodian Orders - See Residence orders
D
Deception in an application - RFL4
Declarations
Of identity (GV3 forms) - ECB8.9
Of sponsorship (undertakings) - ECB12
Deferral - See Toolkit
Dentists
Postgraduate students - PBS
Undertaking clinical observation posts - VAT16
Departure
Embarkation control - ECB15.3
Checking - ECB15.3
Dependants - guidance on dependants is contained in the ECG section dealing with the main applicant, with the exception of;
Refugee dependants with exceptional leave to remain - 16.3.ii
Refugees - 13.6
Deportation orders
Immigration Rules - ECB4.3.1
Preclude entry clearance - RFL3.4
Returning residents - SET9.2
Revoking - ECB4.3.2
EU nationals - EUN1.3
Diplomatic couriers
Exempt status (non-) - EXM5(b)
Diplomatic exempt status - EXM
Direct airside transit visa - VAT8.14 - 25
Disablement allowance - MAA
Discrimination - see Race Discrimination
Diseases, communicable
Refusal of entry clearance - MED1, MED19
Divorces, overseas - SET13
DNA scheme - SET7.11
Doctors
PLAB tests - VAT15
Other tests - VAT1
Clinical attachments - VAT16
Employment - PBS
Documents
Assessing - ECB10.7
Discretion - ECB10.7
Insufficient - ECB10.7
Document Examination Report - ECG Documents
Document Verification Report - ECG Documents
Domestic workers
In diplomatic households - PBS
Other than diplomatic - WRK2.1
Domicile Questionnaire - SET15
Dual lodgement of appeal - APL1.1
Dual nationals
Right of abode and certificates of entitlement - ROA18
Family members of EEA nationals - EUN2.1