Entry clearance guidance: L-R

This page contains the alphabetical index of our entry clearance guidance, covering the letters L-R.

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L

Landing conditions - ECB13

Language assistants on exchange schemes - PBS Tier 5

Lapsing applications - ECB20

Late appeals - APL1.14

Law students - PBS Tier 4

Leave to enter - ECB9.7

Legitimacy Act 1976 - SET7.17

Limited rights of appeal APL4

Lodging an appeal - APL1.2

in the UK - APL1.4
at post - APL1.5

Lorry drivers - VAT11

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M

Maintenance - MAA

Making an appeal - APL1.3

Marriage by telephone - SET3.17

Marriage, validity of - SET3.14

Media representatives, overseas - WRK2, WRK2.22

Medical issues - MED

Medical officers, referees - MED4

Medical treatment, visits for - MED13, VAT7

Medical referrals

Assessing age - MED11
Compassionate grounds - MED10
Costs for medical referrals - MED5, ECO Toolkit
ECO's role - MED3
How to issue after a medical referral - ECO Toolkit
Long-term students - MED9
Medical forms - ECO Toolkit
Medical officers, referees - MED9
Medical Referee's fees - ECO Toolkit
Post policy - ECO Toolkit
Pregnancy - MED14
Procedures - ECO Toolkit
Serious illness - MED12, MED13
Voluntary medical clearance - MED8
Why - MED6

Minister of overseas goverments, exempt status - EXM4(e)

Ministers of religion - PBS Tier 2, PBS Tier 5

Missionaries - PBS Tier 2, PBS Tier 5

Multiple determinations - APL2.10

Multiple entry - VAT1.4

Musicians - PBS Tier 5

Music students - Annex 12.6(h)

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N

NATO civilians - WRK2.5

News agencies, employment with - WRK2 and WRK2.22

NHS

Debt recovery - MED18

Non-conducive to public good - RFL9

Non-visa nationals

Definition and categories requiring entry clearance - ECB4.2

North Sea oil and gas rig employees - WRK2.4

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O

Officials of foreign goverments - EXM

Offshore oil rigs

Employment on - WRK2.4

Olympic visitors - VAT17.15

Organ donation - MED16 and RDF2.3

Organisations whose employees qualify for exempt status - EXM4(f)

Out of time appeal - APL1.14

Overseas airlines' representatives - PBS Tier 2

Overseas divorces - SET13

Overseas domestic workers, diplomatic household - PBS

Overseas domestic workers, private household - WRK2.1

Overseas firms' sole representatives - WRK2.2, WRK2.3

Overseas media representatives - WRK2.21

Overseas news agencies' representatives - WRK2.2, WRK2.22

Overseas students - sponsored programmes - STY5

Overseas territories, issue of visas on behalf of

Processess - ECO Toolkit

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P

Paralympic visitors - VAT17.15

Parents

For settlement - SET8
Accompanying children aged under 12 at school - VAT5

Passports

Checks of - ECB10.3, ECB7 & ECB8
Returnability - ECB7
Two or more persons travelling on one passport - ECB10.4
Not recognised by HMG - ECB8.3
Unofficial - ECB8.1, 8.3, 8.16

Passports and travel documents in current use - ECB8.5

PLAB tests (Professional & Linguistic Assessment Board Test) - VAT15

Police registration - ECB16

Polygamous marriages (including potentially polygamous and children of) - SET14

When are children British citizens? - ROA9

Port medical inspector - MED10

Post

Appropriate for application - ECB5

Posts that can issue entry clearances - ECB5

Pregnancy - MED14

Present and settled - see relevant section of SET

Priests - see Ministers of religion

Prime Minister's initiative for international students - STY2

Private medical treatment - VAT7, MED13

Processing appeals

when refusal is upheld - APL1.7
when refusal is overturned - APL1.8

Professional and Linguistic Assessement Board (PLAB) test - VAT15

Prospective students - VAT10

Proxy marriages - SET3.18

Public funds - MAA2

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R

Race discrimination - ECB2.2, APL4.3

Red Cross travel documents - ECB8.14

Referrals - see Toolkit

Refugees

Fees (gratis) - ECB6.6
Dependants of - Chapter 16
Travel documents - ECB8.13
Visa requirements - ECB4

Refusal of entry clearance - RFL

Refusal of direct airside transit visa (DATV) - VAT8.24

Refusal notice: writing and serving - RFL13

Refusal wordings - RFL

Registration with police - ECB16

Rehabilitation of offenders - RFL10

Release of case notes - RFL14

Reluctant spouses - see Forced marriage

Representations by applicants or sponsors after a refusal - RFL15

Representatives of overseas businesses - WRK2

Representatives of overseas news agencies - WRK2.2, WRK2.22

Researchers (academic) - VAT12.4

Residence (formerly custodianship) orders - SET7.15

Residual right of appeal - APL4

Retired person of independent means - SET11

Returnability - ECB7

Returning residents - SET9

Medical issues - MED7
Refusal on medical grounds - MED

Revocation - ECB18

Right of abode - ROA

Deprivation of right of abode - ROA11
Passport endorsements - ROA7
Proof of right of abode - ROA5
Restriction on exercise of right of abode - ROA10
Who has right of abode - ROA2
When to refer right of abode cases - ROA3

Rights of access to a child - VAT23

Risk and Liaison Overseas Network (RALON) - ECB21

Rudolph Steiner schools - PBS Tier 5

Rules, Immigration

Description - ECB1.1

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