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Offender management: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on dealing with immigration enforcement matters within the UK.

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Accommodation under Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016

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Detention: general instructions

Detention of pregnant women

Detention on reporting

Equality impact assessment: adults at risk: detention of potential and confirmed victims of modern slavery

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Equality impact assessment: GPS non-fitted devices

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Equality impact assessment: standards for consideration of external medical reports

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Identity management: enforcement

Immigration bail

Mandatory refusal period

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Non-compliance and absconder process

Reporting and offender management

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Requesting a second opinion for an external medical report

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Sanctions: vehicle and licensing

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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.

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Updates to this page

Published 27 April 2016
Last updated 176 JuneAugust 2025 + show all updates
  1. Mandatory refusal periods guidance updated with the following: the texts relating to creating a person alert and steps to follow for closure of C and E have been updated.

  2. 'Detention: general instructions' updated as detailed on page 5.

  3. Immigration bail guidance has been updated to reflect changes to the process, in some cases, for variation of bail where a digital reporting condition is being imposed.

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