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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-leave-to-remain-fees-amendment-regulations-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/654",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Leave to Remain) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-leave-to-remain-fees-amendment-regulations-2005",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Immigration (Leave to Remain) (Fees) Regulations 2003 (the “2003 Regulations”).\nRegulation 3 of these Regulations amends the definition of “application” in line with section 43 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 which allows fees to be charged for the transfer of limited (as well as indefinite) leave stamps and which allows fees to be charged for the transfer of leave stamps (limited and indefinite) to and from documents other than passports.\nRegulation 4 of these Regulations substitutes a new regulation 3 in the 2003 Regulations. This new regulation increases the fees for leave to remain applications, applications for the variation of leave to enter and remain, and applications for the transfer of limited or indefinite leave stamps. For leave to remain applications, the fee for applications made in person at public enquiry offices is increased from £250 to £500. The fee for postal applications is increased from £155 to £335. For transfer of leave stamp applications, the fee for applications made in person at public enquiry offices is £500. The fee for postal applications is £160.\nRegulation 5 of these Regulations replaces regulation 3A of the 2003 Regulations with a new provision. This has two effects. First, deletion of existing regulation 3A means that applications for leave to remain for work permit employment, as a highly skilled migrant, as a seasonal agricultural worker, for the purposes of employment under the Sectors-Based scheme and for Home Office approved training or work experience will be charged the same fee as for all other leave to remain applications (£335 for postal or courier applications and £500 for applications made at public enquiry offices).\nSecondly, insertion of a new regulation 3A means that a reduced fee of £250 is payable for postal applications for leave to remain, or postal applications for variation of leave to enter or remain, made by students, student nurses, persons seeking leave to remain to re-sit an examination or write up a thesis, student union sabbatical officers and prospective students. The fee for these applications made in person at a public enquiry office will be the same as for all other leave to remain applications (£500).\nRegulation 6 makes an amendment to regulation 5(c) of the 2003 Regulations, which is consequential on the replacement of regulation 3A of those Regulations. The amendment specifies which applications are the relevant applications for the purposes of regulation 5(c).\nRegulation 7 of these Regulations inserts into the 2003 Regulations a further exemption from the requirement to pay the prescribed fee. Pursuant to this new exemption, no fee is payable in connection with an application for leave to remain, or an application for the variation of leave to enter and remain, where the applicant has limited leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom which was granted outside the provisions of the immigration rules on the rejection of his asylum claim and is seeking further leave to remain in the United Kingdom outside the provisions of the immigration rules.",
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      "text": "c. 19."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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