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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-leave-to-remain-fees-amendment-regulations-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/580",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Leave to Remain) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-leave-to-remain-fees-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Immigration (Leave to Remain) (Fees) Regulations 2003 (“the 2003 Regulations”). The 2003 Regulations prescribe the fee which is to be paid in connection with an application for leave to remain in the United Kingdom, an application for the variation of leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, or an application for an indefinite leave stamp to be fixed on a passport or travel document as the result of the renewal or replacement of a previous passport or travel document. The prescribed fee is £250 or £155 depending on how the application is made. The 2003 Regulations contain a number of exemptions from the requirement to pay the prescribed fee, in particular no fee is payable in respect of an application made in respect of a person seeking leave to remain as a highly skilled migrant or a seasonal agricultural worker, or a person seeking leave to remain for work permit employment.\nRegulations 4 and 5 of these Regulations remove those particular exemptions and insert into the 2003 Regulations a new regulation 3A which prescribes a fee of £121 to be paid in connection with an application for leave to remain in the United Kingdom for work permit employment, as a highly skilled migrant or seasonal agricultural worker, for the purpose of employment under the Sectors-Based Scheme, or for Home Office approved training or work experience.\nRegulation 5 of these Regulations also adds two further exemptions from the requirement to pay the prescribed fee.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/580/note",
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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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