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Leave to enter definition

What does Leave to enter mean? leave to enter means the permission given at the UK border that allows a person subject to immigration control to enter the UK. It is defined in the Immigration Act 1971 and Immigration Rules. Leave is granted by an immigration officer on arrival, or treated as granted where the traveller holds entry clearance (a visa). It may be limited or indefinite (indefinite leave to enter), and may carry conditions on duration, work or study, access to public funds, and reporting requirements. Refusal or cancellation may occur under the Rules; conditions can be varied or curtailed by the...

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UK immigration: Continuing leave and section 3C—travel outside the CTA, making and withdrawing applications, appeals and administrative review, cancellation, invalid/void applications, EUSS absence rules, passports and eVisas

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Practice Note

In this Practice Note, the expressions ‘Leave to enter/remain’ and ‘permission to enter/stay’ are treated as equivalent. Within the simplified routes of the Immigration Rules, ‘permission’ has replaced ‘leave’, though the earlier term continues to appear in other stay categories and in the governing legislation. This Practice Note sets out what occurs to a person’s leave to enter or remain in the UK when they:

  • travel beyond the UK, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Ireland. This collective area is the Common Travel Area (CTA). For details on immigration requirements within the CTA, see Practice Note: The Common Travel Area
  • make an in-country application to vary their leave
  • lodge an in-country appeal
  • make an in-country application for administrative review, or
  • withdraw an in-country variation of leave application before it is decided

Where an individual already possesses leave to enter or remain, any application to extend, reduce, or otherwise change that leave is described under the Immigration Rules as an application to vary their leave...

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