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• Benefits, services and your immigration status

  Information about benefits, services and your immigration status. Check if your immigration status lets you get benefits and healthcare.

• Getting an online immigration status (eVisa)

  You should check if you can get online evidence of your immigration status - also called an ‘eVisa’. Find out more about getting an eVisa.

• Immigration

  Get advice on moving to and staying in the UK, including dealing with visas

• Check if your immigration status lets you get free healthcare

  Find out about charges for NHS treatment if you're from outside the UK, check if you can get free NHS treatment and which treatment is always free

• After you get refugee status

  Finding new housing and applying for benefits after you get refugee status.

• Check if your immigration status lets you get benefits and help with housing

  Check if you’re allowed to claim public funds. Check what counts as public funds, and what else you might be able to claim

• Proving your right to work in the UK

  Find out what you need to show your employer to prove your right to work in the UK. Check what to do if you’ve been dismissed or lost a job offer after your employer checked your right to work.

• If your visa application is delayed

  How to find out what is happening to your visa, if it is delayed and you are waiting for a decision

• If your child is living in the UK illegally

  How to get your child a legal immigration status, such as British citizenship or ‘discretionary leave to remain’, if they are under 18 and living in the UK illegally.

• Check if you have the right to work in the UK

  Find out if you can work in the UK. Your right to work in the UK depends on your immigration status - this is also called your ‘leave’.