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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-nationality-fees-amendment-regulations-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/928",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-nationality-fees-amendment-regulations-2024",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/330) which set fees for the exercise of various functions in connection with immigration and nationality.\nRegulation 3 amends Schedules 1 and 2 to the Regulations to provide for waivers of the fees applicable to applications for entry clearance and leave to enter (Schedule 1) or leave to remain (Schedule 2) as a bereaved partner where the applicant appears to be destitute.\nRegulation 4 introduces a new exception to the requirement to pay fees for applications for entry clearance for persons accompanying Heads of State or Government ministers on official visits to the United Kingdom. The exception applies to applications under the new Appendix VIP Delegate Visa to the immigration rules.\nRegulation 5 makes minor technical amendments. Regulation 5(a) aligns the wording of the existing exception from fees for in-country applications for leave to remain under Appendix Family Reunion (Protection) for dependants of a person with protection status in the United Kingdom with the wording of the exception for applications from overseas. It amends the definition of “Article 3 or Refugee Convention application” in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2, which is used in entry 9.1 in Table 9 of Schedule 2.\nRegulation 5(b) clarifies the provision (at entry 9.4 of Table 9) which enables waiver of fees for “specified human rights applications” for leave to remain, where to require payment of the fee would be incompatible with the applicant's human rights. It amends the definition of “specified human rights application” in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to expressly include an application for limited leave to remain under Appendix Child staying with or joining a Non-Parent Relative (Protection).\nRegulation 6 introduces a new exception to the requirement to pay fees for applications for entry clearance in respect of a new visitor visa for diplomatic passport holders under Appendix V:Visitor to the immigration rules. The Diplomatic Visa Arrangement Visitor visa replaces the diplomatic visa waiver for such persons.\nA full impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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