Catherine is an award-winning, dual-qualified English Solicitor and South African Attorney with over 10 years' experience practising UK immigration and British nationality law at a senior level in the UK.
Individuals allowed to come to, or remain in, the UK for a fixed time often find conditions imposed on their permission.
Such terms may limit employment, occupation, study, or access to public funds.
This Practice Note sets out the categories of conditions, the circumstances and process for attaching them to a person’s permission, and the consequences of any breach.
From 1 December 2020, the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 813 amended a number of provisions in the Immigration Rules, replacing ‘leave to remain’ and ‘leave to enter’ with ‘permission to stay’ and ‘permission to enter’, respectively.
This Practice Note adopts the updated Immigration Rules wording where appropriate, while noting the terms are interchangeable.
What are conditions of permission?
A condition on permission may curb or bar activities or the use of services in the UK.
It can also require a particular action to be carried out...