Chapter 1 Annex 3 - Nationalities required to register with the police [Updated 13 October 2008]

Nationalities required to register with the police
With effect from 11 May 1998, nationals of the following countries, granted leave in accordance with Paragraphs 325 and 326 of the Immigration Rules, are required to register with the police.  Dependants aged 16 or over of nationals required to register with the police are only required to register if they are also nationals or citizens of one of the countries listed below.

Dual nationals should not be required to register unless both the nationalities held are listed above.  
Those given leave to enter (including their dependants – except dependants of off-shore workers) in the categories below are not normally required to register with the Police:
 
a. seasonal agricultural workers
b. private servants in diplomatic households
c. ministers of religion, missionaries, members of a religious order
d. on the basis of marriage to or civil partnership with a person settled in the UK or as the unmarried or same-sex partner settled in the UK
e. exercising access rights to a child resident in the UK
f. parents of a child at school
g. following the grant of asylum.

The following are also exempt from the requirement to register:

h. members of non-NATO forces admitted for courses at British military establishment or with private companies (Course F)
i. Community Service Volunteers
j. civilian components of NATO forces
k. non-visa national employees of contractors to US Armed Forces in the UK
l. non-visa nationals employees of the American Battle Monuments Commission.

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