The Home Office has announced that foreign nationals
will no longer be required to register with the police as part of
their immigration conditions. This includes the requirement to
advise the police of any change in their circumstances, such as a
change of their residential address or employment.
This means that moving forward, individuals with existing police
registration certificates will not have to retain them and
individuals making fresh immigration applications will not have to
produce proof that they have complied with the previous requirement
to register with the police.
This will be welcome news to many individuals who faced
difficulties administering the system in the wake of the
coronavirus pandemic. There was a severe lack of appointments,
meaning that in some cases individuals were waiting for up to a
year before they could attend an appointment to register with the
police – with the next available appointments all falling in
2023 just before this
