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2.—(1) Table 10 specifies the amount of the fees for the specified applications and requests for and in connection with documents relating to immigration or nationality.

(2) Table 11 provides for exceptions to the requirement to pay fees specified in Table 10 for applications for travel documents [F1and for processing an application or claim which is later rejected as invalid].

(3) Table 12 specifies the amount of the fees for the specified applications for biometric immigration documents [F2, the process used to take a record of a person’s biometric information and the reuse of a person’s biometric information.]

(4) Table 13 provides for exceptions to the requirement to pay fees specified in [F3Tables 10 and 12].

(5) Paragraph 3 confers a discretion on the Secretary of State to waive or reduce the specified fee in 12.2.4.

Table 10 (Fees for miscellaneous documents and services)

Number of feeType of applicationAmount of fee
10.1Fees for applications made in the United Kingdom for a transfer of conditions
10.1.1Application for a transfer of conditions onto a biometric immigration document where the application is made within the United Kingdom by post or courier or online and the applicant has limited leave.£161
10.1.2Application for a transfer of conditions onto a biometric immigration document where the application is made within the United Kingdom by post or courier or online and the applicant has indefinite leave.£229
10.2Fee for applications made overseas for a transfer of conditions
10.2.1Application for a transfer of conditions where the application is made outside the United Kingdom.£154
10.3Fees for applications for travel documents
10.3.1Application for a certificate of travel where the person in respect of whom the application is made is aged 16 or over when the application is received by the Secretary of State.£280
10.3.2Application for a certificate of travel where the person in respect of whom the application is made is under the age of 16 when the application is received by the Secretary of State.£141
10.3.3Application for a convention travel document, stateless person's travel document, or document of identity where the person in respect of whom the application is made is aged 16 or over when the application is received by the Secretary of State.£75
10.3.4Application for a convention travel document, stateless person's travel document, or document of identity where the person in respect of whom the application is made is under the age of 16 when the application is received by the Secretary of State.£49
10.4Fee for applications for a Direct Airside Transit Visa
10.4.1Application for a Direct Airside Transit Visa.£35
F4...F4...
F4. . .F4. . .F4. . .
[F510.5A Fees for applications for a replacement or amended Appendix EU biometric residence card]
[F510.5A.1 Application for a replacement of an Appendix EU biometric residence card that has been lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed.£56]
[F510.5A.2 Application for an amended version of an Appendix EU biometric residence card where information recorded on the card has ceased to be accurate.£56]
10.6Fees for applications for a letter or document confirming a person's identity and immigration or nationality status
10.6.1Application for a letter or document (other than a passport), not provided for elsewhere in Table 10, confirming the applicant's identity and providing evidence of immigration or nationality status, or setting out any conditions attendant on such status, or confirming that the person is not a British citizen, where the applicant has limited leave.£161
10.6.2Application for a letter or document (other than a passport), not provided for elsewhere in Table 10, confirming the applicant's identity and providing evidence of immigration or nationality status, or setting out any conditions attendant on such status, or confirming that the person is not a British citizen, where the applicant has indefinite leave.£229
10.6.3Application for a replacement, copy or amended version of a letter or document (other than a passport), not provided for elsewhere in Table 10, confirming the applicant's identity and providing evidence of immigration or nationality status, or setting out any conditions attendant on such status, or confirming that the person is not a British citizen, where the applicant has limited leave.£161
10.6.4Application for a replacement, copy or amended version of a letter or document (other than a passport), not provided for elsewhere in Table 10, confirming the applicant's identity and providing evidence of immigration or nationality status, or setting out any conditions attendant on such status, or confirming that the person is not a British citizen, where the applicant has indefinite leave.£229
10.6.5

Application for a replacement, copy or amended version of a letter or document (other than a passport) confirming the applicant's identity and providing evidence of immigration or nationality status, or setting out any conditions attendant on such status, or confirming that the person is not a British citizen, where the application is made within the United Kingdom by post or courier or online and where the applicant—

(a)has been granted asylum;

(b)has been granted humanitarian protection under the immigration rules; or

(c)is a dependant of an individual within paragraph (a) or (b).

£56
10.7Electronic Visa Waiver
10.7.1Request for an Electronic Visa Waiver.[F6£30]
10.8 [F7Fee] for processing an application or claim which is later rejected as invalid
10.8.1Processing an application or claim which is rejected as invalid prior to a decision being issued F8. . .£25
F9. . .F9. . .F9. . .
F9. . .F9. . .F9. . .

Table 11 (Exceptions to requirement to pay fees for applications for travel documents [F10and for processing an application or claim later rejected as invalid])

Number and description of the exceptionFees to which exception applies
11.1Travel documents for bodies being taken outside the United Kingdom for burial or cremation
No fee is payable in respect of an application for a travel document for a body that is being taken outside the United Kingdom for the purposes of burial or cremation.Fees 10.3.1 to 10.3.4
11.2Travel documents for reconstruction or resettlement
No fee is payable in respect of an application for a travel document where the application is stated as being made in order to enable the applicant to participate in a project operated or approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of enabling a person in the United Kingdom to make a single trip to a country outside the United Kingdom in order to assist the reconstruction of that country or to decide whether to resettle there.Fees 10.3.1 to 10.3.4
11.3Travel documents for the purposes of the Assisted Voluntary Return programme
No fee is payable in respect of an application for a document of identity for the purposes of the Assisted Voluntary Return programme.Fees 10.3.1 to 10.3.4
11.4Travel documents for persons born on or before 2nd September 1929
No fee is payable in respect of an application for a convention travel document or stateless person's travel document where the applicant was born on or before 2nd September 1929.Fees 10.3.1 to 10.3.4
[F1111.5Processing an application or claim which is later rejected as invalid
[F1211.5.1]

No fee is payable in respect of the processing of an application or claim which is rejected as invalid prior to a decision being issued where—

(a)

no fee was payable in respect of that application or claim; or

(b)

a fee was payable in respect of that application or claim but no fee was paid at the time the application or claim was made.

[F13Fee 10.8.1]]
[F1411.5.2 No fee is payable in respect of the processing of an application for leave to remain in the United Kingdom made under Appendix EU to the immigration rules before 7.00 a.m. on 30th March 2019 which is rejected as invalid at or after that time prior to a decision being issued.10.8.1]

Table 12 (Fees for applications for biometric immigration documents [F15, the process used to take a record of biometric information and the reuse of biometric information)]

Number of feeType of application or processAmount of fee
12.1Fees for mandatory applications for a replacement biometric immigration document
12.1.1

Application, by an applicant who has limited or indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom, for a biometric immigration document in accordance with regulation 19(1)(a) of the 2008 Regulations M1 to replace a biometric immigration document which has been cancelled under the following provisions of those Regulations—

(a)regulation 17(b) where the applicant is within the United Kingdom;

(b)regulation 17(c) to (e);

(c)regulation 17(f) (other than where the document needs to be reissued because some substantive alteration is required to the information recorded in the cancelled document); or

(d)regulation 17(g) M2.

£56
12.1.2Application, by an applicant who has limited or indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom, for a biometric immigration document in accordance with regulation 19(1)(b) of the 2008 Regulations to replace a biometric immigration document which has ceased to have effect under regulation 13(4)(b) to (d), 13A(6)(b) to (d) or 13B(4)(b) of those Regulations M3.£56
12.2Fee for taking a record of [F16, or reusing,] biometric information in specified circumstances
12.2.1The process used to take a record of a person's biometric information for the purposes of [F17, or the reuse of a person’s biometric information in connection with,] an application for a biometric immigration document referred to in fees 12.1.1 and 12.1.2.£19.20
12.2.2

The process used to take a record of a person's biometric information for the purposes of [F17, or the reuse of a person’s biometric information in connection with,] an application for a biometric immigration document pursuant to—

(a)paragraph (1)(a) of regulation 3 of the 2008 Regulations, in a case where the person satisfies the condition referred to in that provision as mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) or (b) of that regulation; or

(b)regulation 3A of the 2008 Regulations M4.

£19.20
F18. . .F18....F18. . .
12.2.4The process used to take a record of a person's biometric information for the purposes of [F17, or the reuse of a person’s biometric information in connection with,] an application for a biometric immigration document where the fee is not specified elsewhere in these Regulations.£19.20

Table 13 (Exceptions to the requirement to pay fees for applications for biometric immigration documents [F19, the process used to take a record of biometric information and the reuse of biometric information)]

Number and description of the exceptionFees to which exception applies
13.1Persons granted asylum or humanitarian protection, stateless persons and their dependants
13.1.1

No fee is payable for an application for a biometric immigration document if the applicant—

(a)has been granted asylum;

(b)has been granted humanitarian protection under the immigration rules;

(c)has been granted leave to remain in the United Kingdom under paragraphs 352A to 352FI of the immigration rules;

(d)is a dependant of an individual described in any of (a) to (c); or

(e)has been granted limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain in the United Kingdom as a stateless person, or as the family member of a stateless person, under Part 14 of the immigration rules.

Fees 12.1.1 and 12.1.2
13.2Children born in the United Kingdom to persons granted asylum or humanitarian protection
13.2.1No fee is payable for an application for a biometric immigration document if the applicant is a child who was born in the United Kingdom to a person who has been granted asylum, or has been granted humanitarian protection under the immigration rules.Fees 12.1.1 and 12.1.2
13.3Process used to take a record of a person's biometric information [F20, or the reuse of a person’s biometric information,] where exception 13.1 or 13.2 applies
13.3.1No fee is payable for the process used to take a record of a person's biometric information for the purposes of an application for a biometric immigration document to which exception 13.1.1 or 13.2.1 applies [F21, or for the reuse of a person’s biometric information in connection with such an application.]Fee 12.2.1
13.4Children being looked after by a local authority
13.4.1No fee is payable for the process used to take a record of a person's biometric information [F22, or for the reuse of a person’s biometric information,] if that person is a child and is being looked after by a local authority.Fees 12.2.1 and 12.2.2
13.5Applicants with leave to remain in the United Kingdom under the EC Association Agreement with Turkey [F23or under Appendix ECAA Extension of Stay to the immigration rules]
13.5.1No fee is payable for the process used to take a record of a person's biometric information [F22, or for the reuse of a person’s biometric information,] if that person has limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom [F24granted under Appendix ECAA Extension of Stay to the immigration rules or, before 11.00 p.m. on 31st December 2020,] under the terms of the EC Association Agreement with Turkey.Fees 12.2.1 and 12.2.2
13.6Process used to take a record of a person's biometric information [F25, or the reuse of a person’s biometric information,] where the person is exempt from paying the application fee for the connected application for leave to remain in the United Kingdom, or that application fee has been waived
13.6.1

No fee is payable for the process used to take a record of a person's biometric information [F26, or for the reuse of a person’s biometric information, where that record is taken for the purposes of or (as the case may be) that information is reused in connection with] an application for a biometric immigration document made—

(a)in accordance with paragraph (1)(a) of regulation 3 of the 2008 Regulations, in a case where the person satisfies the condition referred to in that provision as mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) of that regulation, and

(b)in connection with an application for leave to remain in the United Kingdom in relation to which the applicant is exempt from paying the application fee or the application fee has been waived.

Fee 12.2.2
13.7Process used to take a record of a person's biometric information [F27, or the reuse of a person’s biometric information,] where the person has applied for variation of limited leave to allow recourse to public funds in certain circumstances
13.7.1

No fee is payable in respect of the taking of a record of a person's biometric information [F28, or in respect of the reuse of a person’s biometric information,] upon variation of limited leave to enter or limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom, in order to be permitted access to public funds by a person who has been granted such leave (subject to a condition of no recourse [F29or access] to public funds)—

(a)under—

(i)paragraph 276BE(1) (including when it is read with paragraph 276A01(1)) of Part 7 of the immigration rules;

(ii)paragraph 276DG of that Part of the immigration rules;

(iii)paragraph D-LTRP.1.2. (including when it is read with paragraph GEN.2.3.(1).) of Appendix FM to the immigration rules;

(iv)paragraph D-LTRPT.1.2. (including when it is read with paragraph GEN.2.3.(1).) of Appendix FM to the immigration rules;

(v)paragraph D-ILRP.1.2. of Appendix FM to the immigration rules; F30...

(vi)paragraph D-ILRPT.1.2. of Appendix FM to the immigration rules; [F31or

(vii)Appendix Hong Kong British National (Overseas) to the immigration rules;]

(b)outside the immigration rules—

(i)as mentioned in paragraph 276BE(2) (including when it is read with paragraph 276A01(1)) of Part 7 of the immigration rules; or

(ii)before 10th August 2017, as mentioned in paragraph GEN.1.10. of Appendix FM to the immigration rules as the rules were immediately before that date.

Fees 12.2.2 and 12.2.4
[F3213.Z7A Reuse of a person’s biometric information where a record of biometric information is also taken
13Z7A.1No fee is payable for the reuse of a person’s biometric information in connection with an application where a record of any of that person’s biometric information is also taken for the purposes of that application.Fees 12.2.1, 12.2.2 and 12.2.4]
[F3313.7A Application for biometric immigration document in accordance with regulation 3 of the 2008 Regulations by a person falling within paragraph (3) of that regulation
13.7A.1No fee is payable for an application for a biometric immigration document made in accordance with regulation 3 of the 2008 Regulations by a person falling within paragraph (3) of that regulation.Fees 10.6.1, 10.6.2]
13.8Fee for a biometric immigration document where the person has paid an application fee in 10.6 of this Schedule
13.8.1No fee is payable for a biometric immigration document if that person has made an application for which the fee is specified in any of 10.6.1 to 10.6.5.All fees in 12.1

Textual Amendments

Marginal Citations

M1Regulation 19 was amended by S.I. 2009/819 and S.I. 2015/433.

M2Regulation 17 was amended by S.I. 2009/819.

M3Regulation 13 was amended by S.I. 2009/819 and S.I. 2012/594.

M4Regulation 3 was substituted by S.I. 2012/594 and amended by S.I. 2015/433. Regulation 3A was inserted by S.I. 2015/433.

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