Entry clearance guidance: S-Z
This page contains the alphabetical index of our entry clearance guidance, covering the letters S-Z.
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
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
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
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
W
Witnesses - VAT28.1
Wives - see Spouses
Work permits - WRK3
Dependants - WRK3
Work placements - PBS Tier 2, 4, 5
Working holidaymakers - PBS Tier 5
X
X-rays - MED11
Y
Youth Exchange Scheme (UK-Japan) - PBS Tier 5