Entry clearance guidance: S-Z

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

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S

Same-sex partners, settlement - SET5

Seafarers - CRM1

International Labour Organisation Convention 1958 - CRM1.6

Section 108 - APL1.12

Settlement

Children - SET7
DNA testing - SET7.11
Fiancé(e)s - SET1
Independent means - SET11
Other dependant relatives - SET8
Spouses - SET3

Single entry - VAT1.3

Sole representatives - WRK2.2

Sole responsibility (children) - SET7.8

Sponsored students - STY5.1

Sponsorship (undertaking) form - ECB12.4

Sports officials - treated as Sportspersons

Sportspersons - VAT17, PBS Tier 5

Spouses, settlement - SET3

Maintenance and accommodation - MAA

States not recognised by HM Government - ECB8.2

Stateless seafarers - CRM1.9

Stateless travel documents - ECB8.13

Students - STY and PBS Tier 4

Surinder Singh - EUN2.14

Surrogacy - SET7.24, MED15

'Switching' - ECB15.2

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T

Talaq divorces - SET13

Taiwan passports - ECB8.2

TB testing - see Tuberculosis

Teachers

Exchange teachers - PBS Tier 5

Tourists - VAT1

Trade fairs, visitors to - VAT11.2

Trade missions

Overseas government staff - PBS Tier 5
Business persons - VAT11, PBS Tier 5

Transferring an entry clearance - ECB17

Transits - VAT8

Translations for appeals - APL1.11

Translators

Accompanying a business visitor - VAT11.2

Travel documents -ECB8

Checking - ECB8.1 & ECB8.8
Emergency - ECB8.7
Issue of new - ECB8.7

Tribunal recommendations - APL2.11

Tuberculosis (TB) - MED2

TB certificate - MED2.2, MED2.6
TB certificate: exemptions - MED2.3
TB testing: compassionate grounds - MED10
TB testing: countries - MED2.1
TB testing: EEA family applicants - MED2.3
TB testing: free - MED2.5
TB testing programme - MED2
TB testing scholarship and sponsored students - MED2.4
TB testing template for gratis screening - ECO Toolkit
TB testing timing - MED2.2
TB treatment - MED2.2

Turkey, ECAA - WRK4

'Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)' - ECB8.2

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U

UK ancestry - WRK2.3

UK-Japan Youth Exchange Scheme - PBS Tier 5

Under-12 concession (children) - SET7.5

Undertakings - ECB12

Applicant - ECB12.1
Failure to comply with - ECB12.6
Maintenance and accommodation - ECB12.4 & 12.5
Others - ECB12.2
Sponsor - ECB12.2

Uniform Format Form - ECB9.2

Safeguarding vignettes and EU Uniform Format Forms (EU UFF) - ECB9.3(a)
EU Uniform Format Form - ECB8.9
Process for authorisation to issue a UFF - ECB9.3(b) and ECB9.3(c)
Dealing with loss of Home Office travel doc - ECB8.13.10
Issuing for family union - Chapter 16.3

United Nations

Staff exempt from control - EXM4(f)
Travel documents - ECB8.15

Unofficial passports - ECB8.16

Unresolved applications/issues - ECB20

Unused entry clearances - ECB17

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V

Van der Elst - EUN4

Vignettes

Which to use - ECB9.2
Revocation - ECB18
Safeguarding - ECB9.3-9.5

Visas exemption - EXM

Visa nationals

Definition - ECB4.1
List of nationalities - ECB4.1

Visa validity - ECB9.4

Single entry - VAT1.3
Multiple entry - VAT1.4

Visitor in transit - VAT8

Visitors - VAT

Family visits - VAT2
Refusal - RFL2
Right of appeal - VAT1.8, Non-family visitor appeals (limited appeal rights) - APL4

Voluntary medical clearance - MED8

Voluntary workers - PBS Tier 5

Archaeological digs - VAT21

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W

Witnesses - VAT28.1

Wives - see Spouses

Work permits - WRK3

Dependants - WRK3

Work placements - PBS Tier 2, 4, 5

Working holidaymakers - PBS Tier 5

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X

X-rays - MED11

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Y

Youth Exchange Scheme (UK-Japan) - PBS Tier 5

 

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