{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3048",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Biometric Registration) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Issue of a biometric immigration document",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may issue a biometric immigration document ... to a person who has applied in accordance with regulation 3, provided the Secretary of State has decided to —\n(a) grant leave to enter or remain to the person; or\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) issue or replace a document to the person following an application mentioned in regulation 3(2)(g).\n(1A) The reference to the issue of a biometric immigration document in paragraph (1) includes allowing the person to view their biometric immigration document electronically.\n(2) A biometric immigration document issued under this regulation begins to have effect on the date of issue or if later, the date on which the leave to enter or remain specified in an eVisa has effect.\n(3) A biometric immigration document issued under this regulation ceases to have effect on one of the dates specified in paragraph (4), whichever date occurs earliest.\n(4) The specified dates are —\n(a) the date that the person’s leave to remain ceases to have effect, including where the leave to remain is varied, cancelled or invalidated, or is to lapse;\n(b) in the case of a biometric card or biometric sticker which was issued to a person aged sixteen or over, the date after the expiry of ten years beginning with the date of issue; ...\n(c) in the case of a biometric card or biometric sticker which was issued to a person aged under sixteen, the date after the expiry of five years beginning with the date of issue; or\n(d) the expiry date printed on the biometric card or biometric sticker where issued to the person.\n(5) Where the person is issued with a biometric card or biometric sticker, the information contained on that card or sticker is to be read subject to the information on the person’s biometric immigration document.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(1) omitted (1.7.2021) by virtue of The Immigration (Collection, Use and Retention of Biometric Information and Related Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/772), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 3(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 13(1)(a) substituted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 18(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 13(1)(b) omitted (27.3.2025) by virtue of The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 18(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 13(1)(c) substituted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 18(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 13(1A) inserted (1.7.2021) by The Immigration (Collection, Use and Retention of Biometric Information and Related Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/772), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 3(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(2) inserted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(2) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 18(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(3) inserted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(4)(b) substituted (1.7.2021) by The Immigration (Collection, Use and Retention of Biometric Information and Related Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/772), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 3(4)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in reg. 13(4)(b)(c) substituted (31.3.2009) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/819), regs. 1(1), 5 (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in reg. 13(4)(b) omitted (17.3.2015) by virtue of The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 11(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(4)(c) substituted (1.7.2021) by The Immigration (Collection, Use and Retention of Biometric Information and Related Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/772), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 3(4)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Word in reg. 13(4)(c) inserted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 11(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Reg. 13(4)(d) inserted (17.3.2015) by The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/433), regs. 1(1), 11(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(4)(d) substituted (1.7.2021) by The Immigration (Collection, Use and Retention of Biometric Information and Related Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/772), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 3(4)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Reg. 13(5) inserted (1.7.2021) by The Immigration (Collection, Use and Retention of Biometric Information and Related Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/772), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 3(4)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in force at 25.11.2008, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:21:30.508970+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."
}