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Regulation 2

United Kingdom

In these Regulations:

  • “application” means:

    1. (a)

      F1...

    2. (b)

      ...

    3. (c)

      F2an application for a transit visa (meaning a visa issued to a person for the purpose of arriving in the United Kingdom in order to pass through to another country or territory without entering the United Kingdom); F3...

    4. (d)

      F4... F5...

    5. (e)

      F6an application for leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom made under Appendix EU to the immigration rules F7; F8...

    6. (f)

      an application for a frontier worker permit under the Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020; F9or

    7. (g)

      an application for an electronic travel authorisation pursuant to immigration rules made by virtue of section 11C of the Immigration Act 1971;

  • F10“biometric information” means photographs or fingerprints provided under regulation 3;

  • “Convention travel document” means a travel document issued pursuant to Article 28 of the Refugee Convention, except where that travel document was issued by the United Kingdom Government;

  • F11“immigration rules” means rules F12laid down in accordance with section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971;

  • “Refugee Convention” means the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 and its Protocol.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 2 omitted (27.3.2025) by virtue of The Immigration (Biometric Information etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/382), regs. 1(2), 3

F2

Words in reg. 2 inserted (6.4.2015) by The Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/737), regs. 1(1), 3(a)(iii)

F3

Word in reg. 2 omitted (27.8.2018) by virtue of The Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/928), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)

F4

Words in reg. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1309), regs. 1(2), 32(2) (with reg. 32(5))

F5

Word in reg. 2 omitted (4.11.2020) by virtue of The Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1213), regs. 1(2), 27(2)(a)

F6

Words in reg. 2 substituted (30.3.2019) by The Immigration (European Economic Area Nationals) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/686), arts. 1(3), 9

F7

Words in reg. 2 inserted (4.11.2020) by The Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1213), regs. 1(2), 27(2)(b)

F8

Word in reg. 2 omitted (31.3.2023) by virtue of The Immigration (Electronic Travel Authorisations) (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/305), regs. 1(b), 2(a)(i)

F9

Words in reg. 2 inserted (31.3.2023) by The Immigration (Electronic Travel Authorisations) (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/305), regs. 1(b), 2(a)(ii)

F10

Words in reg. 2 inserted (6.4.2015) by The Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/737), regs. 1(1), 3(b)

F11

Words in reg. 2 inserted (6.4.2015) by The Immigration (Provision of Physical Data) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/737), regs. 1(1), 3(c)

F12

Words in reg. 2 substituted (31.3.2023) by The Immigration (Electronic Travel Authorisations) (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/305), regs. 1(b), 2(b)