Change description : 2025-11-11 08:00:00: Changes to reflect Part Suitability replacing Part 9: grounds for refusal of the Immigration Rules. [Guidance and regulation]
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UK Visas and Immigration staff guidance that explains the grounds on which someone can be excluded from the UK.
Updated to reflect the new policy on elites linked to the Russian State and to provide clarification of state threats.
12 August 2024
Changes to reflect the government’s updated definition of extremism.
13 March 2024
Changes from Director, AD and DD to Grades.
27 July 2023
Amendments to the guidance to update the sections on grounds for exclusion, consideration of exclusion, cancellation of existing status and notification of exclusion and to reflect the introduction of the Authority to Carry Scheme 2023.
26 November 2021
Updated guidance.
31 December 2020
Updated for end of EU transition period.
9 October 2020
Updated guidance document
18 September 2018
Replaced the document with a new version.
13 April 2017
'Exclusion decisions and exclusion orders' guidance removed and replaced by 'Exclusion from the UK'.