Guidance

Failure to provide required information and attend interview: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on whether to refuse an application where a person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement to provide information.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 1 December 2020
• Last updated: 20 June 2022 — See all updates

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Suitability: failure to provide required information, attend interview

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff consider whether to refuse an application for entry clearance, permission to enter or permission to stay on suitability grounds where that person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a reasonable requirement to provide information, attend an interview, provide biometrics, undergo a medical examination or provide a medical report.

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Published 1 December 2020
Last updated 20 June 2022 + show all updates

1. 20 June 2022

   Updated guidance with reference to ‘an application on grounds of private life under paragraphs 276ADE to 276DH’ replaced by ‘Appendix Private Life’ and ‘Appendix Settlement Family Life’ added in the ‘Introduction’ section.

2. 20 December 2021

   Guidance updated with revised links.

3. 22 December 2020

   Minor amendment to the introduction to clarify that some of this guidance applies to family reunion applications.

4. 1 December 2020

   First published.