Registering with the Police When you Come to UK

Under immigration law some foreign nationals who come to the UK with a visa have to register with the UK police once they arrive. If this is a requirement of an individual’s visa it will have been printed in their passport at the time the visa was issued.
Anyone who is required to register with the police must do so within 7 days of arriving in the UK.
Who Has to Register with the UK Police?
This requirement is covered by Rule 10 of the Immigration Rules. The rule states that “relevant foreign nationals” who are given leave to remain in the UK for longer than six months are required to register with the police. Relevant foreign nationals are defined as people over the age of 16 who either come from a country listed in Annex A of Chapter 10 of the Rules or is a stateless person or is a person with a non-national travel document.Citizens of the European Economic Area and their families do not have to register with the police; some other categories of foreign nationals are also exempt including seasonal workers, ministers of religion and parents of a child who is at school in the UK.
How to Register with the Police
Immigrants who are required to register with the police will need their passport and, usually, two passport photographs in order to do so. There is also a registration fee of £34 that must be paid.Foreign nationals living or staying in the Metropolitan police area should go to the Overseas Visitors Records Office to register. This is located at 180 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LH and is open Monday to Friday from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm. The Office is close to London Bridge Railway Station and Borough underground station, on the City branch of the Northern Line. Many bus routes pass along Borough High Street. The Metropolitan Police area includes all of Greater London apart from the City of London, which is a small area of Central London.
The Overseas Visitors Records Office is usually easily identifiable because of the very long queue of people waiting to get in. Foreign nationals who need to go to the Records Office to register would be well advised to get there early: if the Records Office gets too busy it will sometimes close before its scheduled closing time.
Foreign nationals staying outside the Metropolitan police area can contact their local police station to find out where they should go to register.
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