Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the 1971 Act” means the Immigration Act 1971 M1;

• “the 1981 Act” means the British Nationality Act 1981 M2;

• “the 1982 Order” means the British Protectorates, Protected States and Protected Persons Order 1982 M3;

• “the 1999 Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 M4;

• “the 2002 Act” means the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 M5;

• “the 2007 Act” means the UK Borders Act 2007 M6;

• “the 2008 Regulations” means the Immigration (Biometric Registration) Regulations 2008 M7;

• “the 2016 Order” means the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Order 2016;

• F2“administrative review” means administrative review under Appendix F3Administrative Review to the immigration rules F4or under Part 5 of the Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020;

• F5...

• F6“approval letter from an endorsing body” means a letter from an endorsing body, within the meaning given by paragraph 6 of the immigration rules, endorsing a proposed application F7from an individual or a business for—

  1. (a)

     entry clearance to enter or leave to remain in the United Kingdom under Appendix Global Talent, Appendix Innovator, Appendix Innovator Founder or Appendix Start-up to those rules;; or

  2. (b)

     a sponsor licence in connection with sponsoring the applicant under Appendix Scale-up to those rules;

• “being looked after by a local authority” means being looked after by a local authority (or in Northern Ireland, an authority) under—

  1. (a)

     section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989 M8;

  2. (b)

     section 17(6) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 M9;

  3. (c)

     article 25(1) of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 M10; or

  4. (d)

     section 74(1) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 M11;

• “biometric immigration document” has the same meaning as provided in section 5 of the 2007 Act M12;

• “certificate of sponsorship”—

  1. (a)

     F8... means an authorisation, allocated by the Secretary of State to a sponsor and issued to a person by that sponsor, in respect of an application, or potential application, for entry clearance, leave to enter or leave to remain in the United Kingdom as a sponsored worker;

  2. (b)

     F9...

• F10...

• “child” means a person under the age of 18;

• “contractor” means a person with whom the Secretary of State has entered into a contract, by which the person agrees to provide certain services in connection with immigration or nationality to applicants;

• “Convention rights” means the rights identified as Convention rights by section 1 of the Human Rights Act 1998 M13;

• “dependant” in respect of a person (“P”) means—

  1. (a)

     the spouse or civil partner of P;

  2. (b)

     someone who has been living with P in a relationship akin to a marriage or civil partnership for at least two years; or

  3. (c)

     any other person whose entitlement to make an application referred to in these Regulations arises by virtue of a connection between that person and P;

• “EC Association Agreement with Turkey” means the agreement establishing an Association between the European Community and Turkey signed at Ankara on 12th September 1963 M14;

• “entry clearance”—

  1. (a)

     in respect of the United Kingdom has the same meaning as provided in section 33(1) of the 1971 Act M15;

  2. (b)

     in respect of the Isle of Man has the same meaning as provided in section 33(1) of the 1971 Act as extended to the Isle of Man M16;

  3. (c)

     in respect of the Bailiwick of Guernsey has the same meaning as provided in section 33(1) of the 1971 Act as extended to the Bailiwick of Guernsey M17;

  4. (d)

     in respect of the Bailiwick of Jersey has the same meaning as provided in section 33(1) of the 1971 Act as extended to the Bailiwick of Jersey M18;

• F11“Global Talent Migrant” has the meaning given by paragraph 6 of the immigration rules;

• “immigration rules” means the rules made under section 3(2) of the 1971 Act;

• F12“immigration salary list certificate of sponsorship” means a certificate of sponsorship issued in respect of employment in an occupation listed in the Immigration Salary List in Appendix Immigration Salary List to the immigration rules;

• “indefinite leave” has the same meaning as provided in section 33(1) of the 1971 Act;

• F13“Innovator Founder” has the meaning given by paragraph 6 of the immigration rules;

• “Isle of Man immigration rules” means the rules made under section 3(2) of the 1971 Act as that section extends to the Isle of Man M19;

• “leave to enter the United Kingdom” means leave to enter the United Kingdom given in accordance with the provisions of the 1971 Act or the immigration rules and any subsequent variation of that leave;

• “leave to remain in the United Kingdom” means leave to remain in the United Kingdom given in accordance with the provisions of the 1971 Act or the immigration rules and any subsequent variation of that leave;

• F14“legacy endorsing body” means an organisation which had previously been approved by the Home Office to endorse an individual or business in connection with an application under the Innovator or Start-up routes but which is not permitted to endorse a new individual or business under the Innovator Founder route;

• “Life in the UK Test” means the test referred to as the Life in the UK Test in Appendix KoLL F15and Appendix KOL UK to the immigration rules and regulation 5A of the British Nationality (General) Regulations 2003 M20;

• “limited leave” has the same meaning as provided in section 33(1) of the 1971 Act;

• “main applicant” means the person who has made an application or claim in connection with immigration, as distinct from a person applying as the dependant of such a person;

• F16“overseas qualification” means a qualification awarded by a body located outside the United Kingdom;

• F17“person in immigration detention” has the meaning given by paragraph 6 of the immigration rules;

• “Points-Based System”—

  1. (a)

     F18...

  2. (b)

     F19... means those categories set out in Part 6A of the Isle of Man immigration rules;

• F20“premium services” means optional premium services in connection with immigration or nationality;

• F21“priority service” means the optional premium service offered to applicants under which an application in connection with immigration and nationality or any part of such an application is processed on an expedited basis;

• “private medical treatment”—

  1. (a)

     in respect of the United Kingdom has the same meaning as provided in Appendix V to the immigration rules;

  2. (b)

     in respect of the Isle of Man has the same meaning as provided in Appendix V to the Isle of Man immigration rules;

• F22“qualifications assessor” means a body approved by the Secretary of State to carry out assessments of overseas qualifications;

• “recognised appropriate language level of overseas qualification” means an assessment by a qualifications assessor of an overseas qualification to determine whether that qualification was taught or researched in English at the appropriate Common European Framework of Reference for Languages level, or above that level;

• “recognised standard of overseas qualification” means an assessment by a qualifications assessor of an overseas qualification to determine whether that qualification meets or exceeds the recognised standard of a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree or PhD in the United Kingdom;

• F23...

• ...

• F24...

• “sponsor”—

  1. (a)

     F25... means a person licensed by the Secretary of State to issue certificates of sponsorship, or confirmations of acceptance for studies, or both;

  2. (b)

     F26...

• F27“Sponsor a Worker” means the scheme operated by the Secretary of State to give approval to an employer to recruit an individual to a specific work role where that individual is required to make an application for entry clearance, leave to enter or leave to remain in the United Kingdom in order to perform that role;

• “sponsor licence” means a licence granted by the Secretary of State to a person who, by virtue of such a grant, is licensed as a sponsor;

• “sponsored worker”—

  1. (a)

     F28...means a person seeking entry clearance, leave to enter or leave to remain in the United Kingdom for the purposes of employment (whether paid or unpaid) or some other economic activity, where that person is required by the immigration rules to obtain a certificate of sponsorship;

  2. (b)

     F29...

• F30“Start-up Migrant”—

  1. (a)

     F31...

  2. (b)

     F32... has the meaning given by paragraph 6 of the Isle of Man immigration rules;

• F33...

• “super priority service” means the optional priority service offered to applicants by which it is aimed to process relevant applications within a period shorter than that within which it is aimed to process applications under the priority service;

• F34“Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) Migrant” and “Tier 1 (Investor) Migrant”—

  1. (a)

     in respect of the United Kingdom have the meanings given by paragraph 6 of the immigration rules;

  2. (b)

     in respect of the Isle of Man have the meanings given by paragraph 6 of the Isle of Man immigration rules;

• “Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) Migrant” has the meaning given by paragraph 6 of the Isle of Man immigration rules;

• F35“Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) Migrant” has the meaning given by paragraph 6 of the Isle of Man immigration rules;

• F36...

  1. (a)

     ...

  2. (b)

     F37...

• F38...

• F39...

• “Tier 5 Migrant”, “Tier 5 (Temporary Worker) Migrant” and “Tier 5 (Youth Mobility) Temporary Migrant”—

  1. (a)

     F40...

  2. (b)

     F41... have the meanings given by paragraph 6 of the Isle of Man immigration rules;

• F42...

• “travel document” means a document which—

  1. (a)

     is not a passport;

  2. (b)

     allows a person (or, if the person has died, the body of that person) to travel outside the United Kingdom; and

  3. (c)

     is issued by the Home Office to a person who is either a refugee or stateless, or cannot obtain or use a passport issued by the person's own country;

• “User-Pays Application Centre” means an office at which applicants can access—

  1. (a)

     in respect of the United Kingdom, services in connection with immigration or nationality specifically in relation to entry clearance to enter, leave to enter or leave to remain in the United Kingdom;

  2. (b)

     in respect of the Isle of Man, services in connection with immigration specifically in relation to entry clearance to enter the Isle of Man;

  3. (c)

     in respect of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, services in connection with immigration specifically in relation to entry clearance to enter that bailiwick;

  4. (d)

     in respect of the Bailiwick of Jersey, services in connection with immigration specifically in relation to entry clearance to enter that bailiwick;

• “visit visa”—

  1. (a)

     F43in respect of the United Kingdom means entry clearance to enter the United Kingdom as a visitor;

  2. (b)

     in respect of the Isle of Man has the same meaning as in Appendix V to the Isle of Man immigration rules.

For the purposes of these Regulations, a person is “in the Family Returns Process” if they fall within the meaning of that term in paragraph 6 of the immigration rules.