UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff deal with offender management.
Guidance in this section has been reworked into a new format and plainer language. Not all of the enforcement guidance has been revised yet. If you cannot find the information you need in this section, please look in the chapters sections of Enforcement instructions and guidance.
We are aware some of these publications may have accessibility issues. We are reviewing them so that we can fix these.
Updated Immigration bail - interim guidance to clarify that an address specified in paragraph 9 of Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016 can mean an address that is yet to be specified; and clarify that an individuals bail conditions may be varied where a residence condition is not already imposed and a refusal of accommodation under paragraph 9 of Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016 would be in breach of Article 3 ECHR.
'Identify management: enforcement' updated with a new section titled 'Age disputes and criminal prosecutions'.
Updated the guidance for adults at risk in immigration detention - changes are detailed in 'changes from last version of this guidance'. Added new guidance: requesting a second opinion for an external medical report.
Guidance on "Adults at risk: detention of potential or confirmed victims of modern slavery" has been amended to reflect the transition of the Modern Slavery Needs Assessment templates to an internal Home Office system.
Updated the immigration bail caseworker guidance to: amend the Digital Reporting section to reflect the updated team name; amend the Electronic Monitoring (EM) section to reflect changes to; and to amend the First-tier Tribunal section to reflect the current bail hearing process and in relation to Financial Condition Supporters.
'Equality impact assessment: referring external medical reports for a second opinion interim operational guidance' has been removed as it is no longer applicable.
Amended the reporting and offender management guidance to reflect the decommissioning of case information database (CID).
Document 'Interim guidance: requesting a second opinion for an external medical report/medico-legal report' removed as this guidance is no longer followed.
Staff guidance on immigration bail has been updated to version 18.0 to bring drafting in line with wider Home Office guidance and amend references to removal notices, following the commencement of section 46(8) of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.
Updated "Interim Guidance: Requesting a second opinion for an external medical report/Medico-Legal Report".
Guidance on immigration bail has been updated to reflect the implementation of Section 46(8) of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.
Documents 'detention: general instructions' and 'detention and case progression review' updated. Changes are detailed on pages 5 and 3 respectively.
Updates to 'Immigration bail' guidance including immigration bail conditions: electronic monitoring; non-compliance with immigration bail: administrative penalties: recovery of payment under financial condition. In addition, a new section has been added to provide guidance where interim relief has been granted in the form of immigration bail.
'Identity management (enforcement)': updated to show the correct minimum age at which child can have their fingerprints taken. Accessible version added.
Added equality impact assessment on residential holding rooms.
Updated guidance on 'Adults at risk in immigration detention' added.
Added equality impact assessment: reporting and offender management.
