{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-biometric-registration-regulations-2008/regulation-18.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/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Requirement for the holder of a document to notify the Secretary of State",
  "text": "(1) The holder of a biometric immigration document must notify the Secretary of State as soon as reasonably practicable if he —\n(a) knows or suspects that information provided in connection with the document was or has become false, misleading or incomplete;\n(b) knows or suspects that the document has been lost or stolen;\n(c) knows or suspects that the document (including any information recorded in it) has been altered or damaged (whether deliberately or not);\n(d) was given leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom in accordance with a provision of the immigration rules and knows or suspects that owing to a change of his circumstances he would no longer qualify for leave under that provision; or\n(e) knows or suspects that another person has acquired the biometric immigration document without his consent and the consent of the Secretary of State.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), a facial image included in an eVisa is to be treated as becoming misleading information to which the duty to notify under paragraph (1) applies—\n(a) in the case of a holder aged between 16 and 70, after a period of 10 years;\n(b) in the case of a holder aged under 16, after a period of 5 years.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 renumbered as reg. 18(1) (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 20(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(1)(e) substituted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 20(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 18(2) inserted (27.3.2025) by The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 20(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 25.11.2008, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3048/regulation/18",
    "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."
}