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Guidance: Immigration advisers’ fees and accounts

Information from the Immigration Advice Authority on immigration advisers’ fees and accounts.

Guidance: Supervision of trainee immigration advisers: guidance note

Information from the Immigration Advice Authority on immigration advisers’ supervision of employees.

Guidance: Investigating client’s complaints: practice note

Points for registered immigration advice organisations to consider when investigating clients’ complaints.

Guidance: Licensed access scheme: practice note

Information about the licensed access scheme and how licensed immigration advisers registered with the Immigration Advice Authority can instruct barristers.

Guidance: Cover in the absence of an adviser: practice note

Practice note on the arrangements registered organisations should make to cover for an authorised adviser’s absence.

Guidance: Fitness of immigration services: assessing advisers

How the Immigration Services Commissioner determines an adviser’s competence to give immigration advice.

Guidance: Signposting and referrals: practice note

Information for immigration advisers on signposting and referring clients.

Guidance: Meeting the needs of vulnerable clients: practice note

Information to help immigration advisers identify clients who might be vulnerable and how they can meet their needs.

Statutory guidance: Judicial Review Case Management: practice note

Outlines how Level 3 advisers can undertake work with authorisation at Judicial Review Case Management level.

Guidance: How to become a regulated immigration adviser

Details on how to become a registered immigration adviser, including the online competence assessment process and the required forms to submit your application.

Guidance: Process for applications from ex-offenders

Describes the process for serious disclosures of criminal convictions by immigration advisers.

Guidance: Immigration sample assessment: level 2

Sample level 2 immigration assessments from the Immigration Advice Authority.