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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-nationality-fees-amendment-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1008",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-nationality-fees-amendment-regulations-2026",
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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) (“the 2018 Regulations”), which set fees for the exercise of various functions in connection with immigration and nationality.\nRegulation 5 inserts a new fee exception into Schedule 1 to the 2018 Regulations for applications for limited leave to enter the United Kingdom made from within the United Kingdom by applicants who are in immigration detention or in the Family Returns Process and whose applications are made on the basis of rights identified as Convention rights by section 1 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (c. 42).\nRegulation 6 inserts an equivalent fee exception, for the same cohort of applicants, into Schedule 2 to the 2018 Regulations, for applications for limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom.\nRegulations 5 and 6 also remove fees in Schedules 1 and 2 respectively to the 2018 Regulations for applications for entry clearance and limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom in relation to visa routes that have closed and are no longer transitionally available under the United Kingdom immigration rules. Where related applications can still be made, transitionally, by dependants on those routes, these regulations make separate provision for the related application fees which are required as a result of revoking the provisions for the main applicants’ fees. Regulation 5 also removes a fee exception for entry clearance under Appendix Service Providers from Switzerland following the removal of that appendix from the United Kingdom immigration rules.\nRegulation 7 inserts into Schedule 3 to the 2018 Regulations an exception to the application fee for a transfer of conditions where the applicant has been granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom under Appendix EU to the United Kingdom immigration rules.\nRegulation 8 amends fees relating to entry clearance applications under the Isle of Man immigration rules. It removes fee provisions for entry clearance applications for visa routes which are no longer available under those rules, and a fee for an approval letter related to one of these routes. It inserts fees for entry clearance applications under Appendix Global Business Mobility Routes, a new appendix to the Isle of Man immigration rules containing new visa routes which will be available from 2nd November 2026. Regulation 4 revokes provisions in regulation 11 of the 2018 Regulations which relate to the fees which are being removed.\nRegulation 9 amends provisions in Schedule 11 to the 2018 Regulations for exceptions to and refunds of the fee for administrative review as a result of the removal of the ability to request administrative review of decisions under certain appendices to the United Kingdom immigration rules and the closure of the Service Providers from Switzerland visa route.\nRegulation 3 amends, removes and inserts definitions in regulation 2 of the 2018 Regulations as a result of amendments made by regulations 5, 6, 8 and 9 and the change to the name of Appendix Administrative Review to the United Kingdom immigration rules.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced 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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  "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."
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