Powers and operational procedure: caseworker guidance
Immigration staff guidance on administrative and criminal powers for officers dealing with immigration enforcement matters within the UK.
- Other Advertising unlawful immigration services online (accessible)
- Other Arrest and restraint (accessible)
- Other Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025: seizure of electronic devices policy guidance (accessible)
- Other Critical incident management (accessible)
- Other Dealing with potential criminality (ICE teams) (accessible)
- Other Enforcement planning assessments (accessible)
- Other Enforcement visits (accessible)
- Other Identifying people at risk (accessible)
- Impact Assessment Immigration Enforcement equalities and community impact assessment (accessible)
- Other Immigration Enforcement powers (accessible)
- Other Irregular or unlawful entry and arrival (accessible)
- Other Marriage investigations (accessible)
- Other Offence of endangering another during a journey by sea (accessible)
- Other Partnership working (accessible)
- Other Post enforcement visit actions (accessible)
- Other Preventing illegal working in licensed premises and the Home Office role as a responsible authority in England and Wales (accessible)
- Other Record keeping during enforcement visits (accessible)
- Other Right to rent scheme: permission to rent (accessible)
- Other Safeguarding and establishing lawful residence (accessible)
- Other Search and seizure (accessible)
- Other Section 179 of the Licensing Act 2003: right of entry to premises being used for a licensable activity (accessible)
- Other Warrants: procurement and use (accessible version)
UK Visas and Immigration guidance on when and how staff may make an arrest using administrative immigration or criminal powers.
This is part of Immigration Enforcement General Instructions.
Guidance in this section has been reworked into a new format and plainer language. Not all of the enforcement guidance has been revised yet. If you cannot find the information you need in this section, please look in the ‘chapters’ sections of Enforcement instructions and guidance.
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