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This week: 13 significant changes across 13 documents.

Last update: 31 minutes ago (21 Jul 2026).

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Other immigration guidance

Form UKM: guidance

gov.uk: Updated applying to register as a British citizen if born before 1983 to a British mother, application processing times and information on returning your biometric residence permit (BRP).

AI summaryThe BRP return obligation has been replaced: applicants must now destroy their BRP/BRC after the citizenship ceremony rather than return it by post within 5 working days, and the £1,000 fine for non-return no longer appears in the guidance.

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Other immigration guidance

Form UKF: guidance

gov.uk: Updated application processing times and information on returning your biometric residence permit (BRP).

AI summaryThe BRP return obligation has been replaced: applicants must now destroy their BRP/BRC rather than post it back to the Home Office, and the previous £1,000 fine for non-return has been removed from the guidance.

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Other immigration guidance

Form S: guidance

gov.uk: Updated with information about the priority service.

AI summaryThe BRP return requirement has been replaced: applicants who naturalise must now destroy their BRP/BRC rather than return it to the Home Office, and the postal address and fine warning have been removed.

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Citizenship & nationality

Form RS1: guidance

gov.uk: Updated application processing times and information on returning your biometric residence permit.

AI summaryThe BRP surrender requirement has been replaced: applicants who naturalise are now told to destroy their BRP/BRC rather than return it by post to a Bristol PO Box, and the £1,000 fine warning has been removed from this guidance.

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Other immigration guidance

Appendix HM Armed Forces: caseworker guidance

gov.uk: Updated to allow children of single serving personnel, whose parent is exempt from immigration control, to be granted permission under this appendix.

AI summaryNew rule: children of single serving personnel who are exempt from immigration control can now be granted permission to stay for 5 years under Appendix HM Armed Forces, and a new waiver of the 60-month continuous residence requirement applies when that exempt parent applies for settlement.

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CPINs

Country policy and information note: Christians and Christian converts, Pakistan, July 2026 (accessible)

gov.uk: Published the country policy and information note: Christians and Christian converts, Pakistan, July 2026.

AI summaryThe Home Office has replaced version 5.0 (April 2024) with version 6.0 (July 2026) of the CPIN on Christians and Christian converts in Pakistan, with materially revised risk, protection and internal relocation assessments across all sub-categories and updated country information derived from 2023 census data and sources up to 31 May 2026.

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Asylum & human rights

Asylum accommodation at military sites: factsheets

gov.uk: Updated factsheet for MoD Bicester, Oxfordshire.

AI summaryThe MoD Bicester factsheet (version 2.0, July 2026) adds a new section — Q15 — disclosing that the Home Office has submitted an Urgent Crown Development planning application to MHCLG for the proposed asylum accommodation use of the site.

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Other immigration guidance

Right to work checks: an employer's guide

gov.uk: The guidance has been updated.

AI summaryThis is a draft guidance document (marked "DRAFT: 15 July 2026"), implementing changes made by the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (BSAI 2025) — most significantly extending the Right to Work Scheme beyond traditional employment contracts (contracts of service/apprenticeship) to workers' contracts, individual sub-contractors, and online matching services, with an entirely new "extended liability" regime for non-direct contractual arrangements — coming into force on 1 October 2026. ---

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Work & study

Global Business Mobility routes caseworker guidance

gov.uk: Updated to include an additional trade agreement.

AI summaryNew operational guidance added for Service Supplier applicants under the UK–India Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), including a 1,800-place annual cap on three specific roles for Indian nationals.

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Other immigration guidance

Service Supplier visa: eligible trade agreements and sectors

gov.uk: Updated to include the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and India.

AI summaryThis document updates the Service Supplier visa (Global Business Mobility) list of eligible trade agreements and covered sectors to add India as a qualifying country under the new UK-India Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

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Other immigration guidance

IAA adviser registration explained

gov.uk: First published.

AI summaryThe IAA's first comprehensive published guide to registration requirements for immigration advisers explains the full regulatory framework — levels, eligibility, competence assessments, fees, suitability requirements and ongoing obligations — for non-solicitor organisations seeking IAA authorisation under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. ---

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Family & settlement

Windrush Compensation Scheme: full rules

gov.uk: The guidance has been updated to reflect change from independent person to the Windrush commissioner.

AI summaryThe governance section has been substantively revised: the role of "Independent Person" has been replaced by a "Windrush Commissioner" operating under a Memorandum of Understanding, with altered reporting obligations — practitioners advising claimants on the scheme's oversight structure should note this.

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Enforcement, detention & removals

Sailing pleasure craft to and from the UK

gov.uk: Updated the sPCR fallback template.

AI summaryThis is a Border Force partner/communications pack for the digital 'Submit a Pleasure Craft Report' (sPCR) service, updated solely to refresh the sPCR fallback template; it contains no changes to substantive immigration requirements.

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Other immigration guidance

Apply for a British Overseas Territory or Commonwealth country visa

gov.uk: Updated to reflect that UKVI no longer accepts visa applications for British Overseas Territories or Commonwealth countries.

AI summaryUKVI has entirely ceased accepting visa applications for British Overseas Territories and Commonwealth countries — the previous application process through UKVI (including for Gibraltar) no longer exists.

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Enforcement, detention & removals

Getting through the UK border faster

gov.uk: Updated information to highlight that from 8 July, children aged 8 and over can use eGates.

AI summaryPublic-facing Home Office border guidance updated from 8 July 2025 to lower the minimum age for eGate use from 10 to 8 years old, with children aged 8–17 required to be accompanied by an adult.

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Other immigration guidance

Form T: guidance

gov.uk: Updated with information on processing times for the priority service.

AI summaryTwo substantive changes: processing times for the priority service have been added, and the BRP return obligation has been replaced — BRP holders must now destroy (not return) their card after the citizenship ceremony, with no 5-working-day deadline and no threat of a fine.

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Citizenship & nationality

Form B(OTA): guidance

gov.uk: Updated section on application processing times in 'Guide B3: Registration as a British citizen – Irish citizens'.

AI summaryGuide B3 now includes information about a priority processing service offering decisions within 30 working days for Irish citizen registration applicants, and the BRP surrender heading has been reworded.

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Citizenship & nationality

Form MN1: guidance

gov.uk: A new section 'when will the child become British?' has been added. The section on returning your BRP has been updated and renamed 'destroy your Biometric Residence Permit (BRP)'.

AI summaryThe BRP return requirement has been replaced: holders no longer return their BRP by post within 5 working days but must instead destroy it after attending their citizenship ceremony; a new section "When will the child become British?" has also been added explaining whether the child must attend a ceremony.

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Citizenship & nationality

Form B(OTA): guidance

gov.uk: Updated Guide B1: registration as a British citizen guidance as the priority service is now live.

AI summaryThe priority service for faster decisions is now live and the guidance has been updated to tell applicants how to access it; separately, the BRP destruction instruction has been revised to clarify that destruction is required after the citizenship ceremony, not on receipt of the certificate.

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Other immigration guidance

Form AN: guidance

gov.uk: Updated the guidance with information about the new priority service.

AI summaryThe guidance now includes information about a new priority service offering decisions within 30 working days.

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Citizenship & nationality

Priority treatment requests: caseworker guidance

gov.uk: Updated to reflect the introduction of the Priority Service for nationality applications.

AI summaryA new paid Priority Service for nationality applications has been introduced (£500 fee, 30-working-day target), and several criteria governing discretionary priority treatment for naturalisation cases have been amended or removed. ---

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Enforcement, detention & removals

Managing escape or abscond risk within immigration detention

gov.uk: First published.

AI summaryFirst published DSO setting out mandatory procedures for identifying, managing, reviewing and appealing escape/abscond risk classifications for individuals held in immigration removal centres, pre-departure accommodation, residential short-term holding facilities, and during escorts.

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CPINs

Country policy and information note: Christians, China, June 2026 (accessible)

gov.uk: Published an updated version of the country information and guidance on Christians in China.

AI summaryThe Home Office has published version 5.0 of its CPIN on Christians in China (June 2026), updating the country information underpinning the existing risk assessment while maintaining the overall conclusions drawn from the 2014 country guidance case QH.

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Enforcement, detention & removals

Room sharing risk assessment (RSRA)

gov.uk: The IS91RA Part C Checklist: when to issue following new health-related information, has been added.

AI summaryThis is Version 4 of the Room Sharing Risk Assessment (RSRA) Detention Services Order, governing how IRC and RSTHF staff assess the risk detained individuals pose to — or face from — roommates; the substantive update adds a new checklist (IS91RA Part C) specifying precisely when health-related information must trigger a Part C notification to caseworkers. ---

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Enforcement, detention & removals

Handling complaints in immigration removal centres

gov.uk: Updated the DSO, Annex F and Annex H with revised versions and addded Annex A.

AI summaryVersion 8.0 (June 2026) introduces several operational changes including a new Annex A on complaint types, a new mandatory Complaints Log specification with prescribed data fields, new requirements around healthcare complaint scope (extended to Home Office-commissioned services such as Dungavel), revised handling of healthcare staff corruption allegations (routed exclusively to the DS Counter Corruption & Investigations Unit), and a new duty on investigators to consider and address complainants' vulnerabilities when drafting responses.

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CPINs

Country policy and information note: Christians and Christian converts, Iran, June 2026 (accessible)

gov.uk: Published an updated version of the country policy and information note on Christians and Christian converts.

AI summaryThe Iran: Christians and Christian converts CPIN has been updated from version 7.0 (September 2022) to version 8.0 (June 2026), with substantially refreshed country information and a restructured assessment that now explicitly addresses the impact of the June 2025 Israel-Iran ("12-Day") war on Christian persecution, reports a sixfold increase in the total length of faith-related prison sentences in 2024, and adds a new warning about intensified arrests in the immediate aftermath of the June 2025 hostilities. ---

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Other immigration guidance

Examples of UK visa vignettes

gov.uk: Updated to reflect that vignettes are no longer issued from 1 July 2026.

AI summaryThe Home Office has confirmed that physical visa vignettes ceased to be issued from 1 July 2026, with all successful applicants now receiving digital immigration status evidence only.

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