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