{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-and-nationality-fees-order-2016/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-and-nationality-fees-order-2016/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111142691",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-immigration-and-nationality-fees-order-2016",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Applications for leave to enter or leave to remain in the United Kingdom, or entry clearance to enter the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man, as a sponsored worker, an unsponsored worker, a student or for any other purpose (excluding visits)",
  "text": "(1) A fee is to be charged for the consideration of an application for leave to enter the United Kingdom, leave to remain in the United Kingdom, or entry clearance to enter the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man, of a type specified in table 2.\n(2) Table 2 specifies the maximum amount that may be charged in respect of each application.\n(3) In this article an application includes an application for variation of leave to enter or leave to remain in the United Kingdom.\nTable 2\nNumber\nType of application\nMaximum amount\n2.1\nEntry clearance or limited leave as a sponsored worker, where a certificate of sponsorship has been issued.\n£1,500\n2.2\nEntry clearance or limited leave as an unsponsored worker.\n£2,000\n2.3\nEntry clearance or limited leave as a student.\n£480\n2.4\nEntry clearance or limited leave where the basis upon which that leave is given may (after one or more subsequent periods of leave on the same basis) lead to a grant of indefinite leave to remain.\n£3,250\n2.5\nEntry clearance or limited leave for any purpose (excluding visits) not referred to in the preceding provisions of this table.\n£2,000\n2.6\nIndefinite leave.\n£3,250",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111142691/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:08:48.347129+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}