Article 3 Requirement to pay a fee for applications in connection with immigration or nationality

(1)

An application in connection with immigration or nationality to which this article applies must be accompanied by the fee for the time being specified in relation to the application in question in regulations made under section 51(3) of the 2006 Act.

(2)

This article applies to applications for—

(a)

leave to remain in the United Kingdom given in accordance with the provisions of, or made under, the 1971 Act;

(b)

variation of leave to enter, or remain in, the United Kingdom given in accordance with the provisions of, or made under, the 1971 Act;

(c)

the fixing of a stamp, sticker or other attachment which indicates that a person has been granted limited, or indefinite, leave to enter, or remain in, the United Kingdom on a passport or other document issued to the applicant;

(d)

an immigration employment document, that is to say a work permit, or any other document which relates to employment and is issued for the purposes of the immigration rules or in connection with leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom;

(e)

a travel document not including a passport;

(f)

naturalisation as a British citizen under section 6(1) or (2) of the 1981 Act;

(g)

naturalisation as a British overseas territories citizen under section 18(1) or (2) of the 1981 Act;

(h)

registration as a British citizen under section 1(3) or (4), 3(1), (2)^f1 or (5)^f2, 4(2) or (5), 4A^f3, 4B^f4, 4C^f5, 10(1)^f6 or (2)^f7, or 13(1) or (3) of the 1981 Act, or paragraph 3^f8, 4^f9 or 5 of Schedule 2 to that Act;

(i)

registration as a British overseas territories citizen under sections 24 and 13(1) or (3), or section 15(3) or (4), 17(1), (2) or (5), or 22(1) or (2) of the 1981 Act, or paragraph 3, 4 or 5 of Schedule 2 to that Act;

(j)

registration as a British overseas citizen under section 27(1) of the 1981 Act, or paragraph 4 or 5 of Schedule 2 to that Act;

(k)

registration as a British subject under section 32 of the 1981 Act, or paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to that Act;

(l)

registration as a British citizen under section 1 of the 1997 Act;

(m)

permission to marry in the United Kingdom under section 19(3)(b), 21(3)(b) or 23(3)(b) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004^f10; and

(n)

permission to form a civil partnership in the United Kingdom under paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 23 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004^f11.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Amended by section 5 of, and paragraph 3(1) and (2) of Schedule 1 to the British Overseas Territories Act 2002, c. 8.
f2: Amended by section 5 of, and paragraph 3(1) and (4) of Schedule 1 to the British Overseas Territories Act 2002, c. 8.
f3: Inserted by section 4 of the British Overseas Territories Act, c. 14.
f4: Inserted by section 12 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, c. 41.
f5: Inserted by section 13 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, c. 41.
f6: Amended by sections 5(a) and 161 of, and Schedule 9 to, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, c. 41.
f7: Amended by sections 5(a) and 161 of, and Schedule 9 to, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, c. 41 and by section 261(1) of, and paragraph 73 of Schedule 27 to, the Civil Partnership Act 2004, c. 33.
f8: Amended by section 1(1)(b) of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002, c. 8 and by sections 8 and 161 of, and Schedule 9 to, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, c. 41.
f9: Amended by sections 1(1)(b) and 2(2)(b) of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002, c. 8.
f10: 2004 c. 19.
f11: 2004 c. 33.