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1. e-Borders

   e-Borders is the name of a programme we have set up to introduce electronic border control to the United Kingdom by 2014.  It will collect and analyse passenger and crew information provided electronically by carriers (airlines, rail and shipping companies) before travel starts on all journeys to and from the United Kingdom.

2. Earnings

   This is one of the categories (known as 'attributes') for which  you can gain points under the points-based system for coming to the United Kingdom to work, train or study. It means the amount of money you have been paid in your job or business in 12 consecutive months during the 15 months before your application. We also need to know who paid you, the country where you earned the money, and the exchange rate to convert the amount into sterling (see www.oanda.com).

3. Educational establishment

   A school, college or university.

4. Educational institution

   A school, college or university.

5. Eligibility

   The requirements you must meet to apply.

6. Eligible

   You meet the requirements to apply.

7. Employment agency

   An agency that finds workers and matches them to available jobs in other organisations.

8. Enforced removal

   A legal process we follow that enables us to force a person to leave the United Kingdom if he/she has no right to be here. It may involve arrest and detention in a secure centre until the person leaves the country.

9. English language

   This means your ability to speak and write in English. A defined level of skills is required before you can make certain applications. Under the points-based system for coming to the United Kingdom to work, train or study this is one of the categories for which you must gain points.

10. Entrepreneur start date

    If you were granted entry clearance as a Tier 1 Entrepreneur, your entrepreneur start date is the date when you entered the United Kingdom (if you can produce evidence of your date of entry) or the date when you were granted entry clearance (if you cannot produce evidence of your date of entry). If you were already in the United Kingdom when you became a Tier 1 Entrepreneur, your entrepreneur start date is the date when you were granted leave to remain as a Tier 1 Entrepreneur.

11. ESOL

    English for speakers of other languages. This is a course for people who do not have sufficient English to be able to live independently in the United Kingdom. This course is run by both state-funded and private colleges. If you are not sure what your level of English is, your local further education college or learndirect centre can give you an initial assessment.

12. ESOL Entry 3

    This is the minimum standard of English that will enable an applicant to pass the knowledge of life in the UK test. If you are not sure if you meet this standard, you should arrange to have your knowledge assessed by an ESOL provider.

13. Estate

    Everything that you own.

14. Estate (in the United Kingdom)

    All that you own in this country.

15. Estyn

    Estyn is the office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales.

16. European Economic Area

    Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Irish Republic, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway are not members of the European Union (EU) but citizens of these countries have the same rights to enter, live in and work in the United Kingdom as EU citizens.

17. 1996 European Social Charter

    This updated the 1961 Council of Europe Charter, which set out certain rights to improve the standard of living and social well-being of citizens of the European Union.

18. European Union

    Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Irish Republic, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.

19. European Union's lifelong learning programme

    The Lifelong Learning Programme is a European funding programme which supports education and training across Europe. The Lifelong Learning Programme provides funding for activities at all stages of lifelong learning - at school, at college, at university, in the workplace and in the community.

20. Exceptional leave to enter or remain

    Permission to stay in the United Kingdom for reasons that are exceptional. This type of permission is no longer given, but was sometimes given in the past to someone who does not qualify for asylum but whom we believe should be allowed to stay for other reasons.

21. Expected contact

    For students in schools, further education and English language colleges, an expected contact will normally be where the student has missed two weeks of a course. In the higher education institutions, where daily registers are not kept we will accept reports of where the student has missed expected interactions, for example, tutorials or submission of coursework.

22. Experience you have in the United Kingdom

    Under the points-based system for coming to the United Kingdom to work, train or study this is one of the categories (known as 'attributes') for which  you can gain points. You may be able to score points for this if you scored points for previous earnings in the United Kingdom, or have a qualification at bachelor's degree level or above that was gained in the United Kingdom.

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