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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-nationality-fees-regulations-2018/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/330",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-nationality-fees-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Fees for the exercise of consular functions in connection with immigration and nationality",
  "text": "(1) Table 16 specifies the amount of the fees for the exercise of the specified consular functions.\n(2) The fee specified at 16.1.1 in Table 16 is to be read with paragraph 3 (charges for travel time when services are provided away from consular premises).\n(3) Each of the fees specified in Table 16 is subject to paragraph 4 (discretion to waive fees for the services of consular officers or employees).\nTable 16 (Fees for the exercise of consular functions in connection with immigration and nationality)\nNumber of fee\nService provided\nAmount of fee\n16.1\nGeneral fee for the services of consular officers\n16.1.1\nThe provision of the services of a consular officer or consular employee in relation to any service which the consular post or diplomatic mission has agreed to undertake in connection with immigration or nationality.\n£142 per hour or part hour\n16.2\nFees for receiving, preparing and forwarding documents\n16.2.1\nThe receiving, preparing or forwarding (or any combination of those) of supporting documents for an application for a visa where the Secretary of State does not have authority to issue that visa.\n£141\n16.2.2\nThe receiving, preparing or forwarding (or any combination of those) of supporting documents for an application for a residence permit or identity card issued by a country or territory other than the United Kingdom.\n£141\n16.2.3\nThe receiving, preparing or forwarding (or any combination of those) of any certificate or document except a travel document or an application for registration or naturalisation.\n£141\n16.3\nFee for receiving applications for visas on behalf of Commonwealth countries or British Overseas Territories\n16.3.1\nThe receiving, preparing or forwarding (or any combination of those) of supporting documents for an application for a visa for a country listed in Schedule 3 to the 1981 Act or a British overseas territory within the meaning of section 50(1) of the 1981 Act .\n£141",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Schedule 3 was amended by paragraph 8 of the Schedule to the Brunei and Maldives Act 1985 (c. 3) and by S.I. 1983/882, S.I. 1983/1699, S.I. 1989/1331, S.I. 1990/1502, S.I. 1994/1634, S.I. 1998/3161, S.I. 2010/246, S.I. 2015/1771 and S.I. 2017/568."
    },
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      "label": "M2",
      "text": "The definition of “British overseas territory” in section 50(1) was inserted by section 1(1)(a) of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (c. 8)."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/330/schedule/5/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:40:45.592213+00:00"
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  "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."
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