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1. Rating

   This term is applied to a sponsor under the points-based system for coming to the United Kingdom to work, train or study. It is one of two levels (A or B) awarded by us when a sponsor joins the register of sponsors.

2. Register of Education and Training Providers

   The Register of Education and Training Providers is a list of colleges including universities and private education providers in the United Kingdom. It was set up to tackle immigration abuse in the education sector. All colleges that want to recruit overseas students need to appear on the register.

3. Register of sponsors

   A list of all organisations licensed to sponsor migrants under the points-based system.

4. Registered in the United Kingdom

   To be registered as a British citizen.

5. Registration

   Registration is a legal process by which someone can gain British citizenship, or other British nationality status. Registration as a British citizen is available only to people who already have specific connections to the United Kingdom, the British overseas territories, or Hong Kong.

6. Registration document or certificate

   A document that confirms a person's qualifications to practice a certain profession.

7. Registration documents

   A document showing that a business is registered for a specific purpose with the relevant official organisation.

8. Registration or professional accreditation

   Recognition by or registration with the appropriate authority in the United Kingdom that permit a person who gained their qualifications in another country to practice a certain profession in the United Kingdom.

9. Remove

   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.

10. Remuneration

    Payment you receive for work you have done or a service you have supplied. This includes salary as well as other types of benefit.

11. Renounce

    To give up your British citizenship.

12. Renounced

    British citizenship that has been given up.

13. Renunciation

    The procedure for giving up British citizenship.

14. Representative

    When applied to the points-based system for coming to the United Kingdom to work, train or study, this term refers to one of the roles that can be allocated within an organisation that sponsors migrants under the points-based system.

15. Resident labour market

    The pool of workers who qualify as resident workers. A resident worker is a person who is a national of the European Economic Area (EEA) or is legally settled in the United Kingdom with permission to work here. 

16. Resident labour market test

    This is the process an employer must follow before employing a person who is not a permanent resident of the United Kingdom if he/she is first required to show that no resident worker could be found to take a job.

17. Resident worker

    A person who is a national of the European Economic Area (EEA) or is legally settled in the United Kingdom with permission to work here. In some cases, an employer who wishes to employ a person who is not a permanent resident must show that no resident worker could be found to take the job.

18. Residential qualifying period

    This is the length of time a person must have lived legally in the United Kingdom before qualifying to apply for naturalisation as a British citizen or for permanent residence. For naturalisation, the period is five years, or three years if you are married to or in a civil partnershp with a British citizen.

19. Responsible adult

    A parent or guardian, or another person aged 18 or over, who takes responsibility for a child for a short time.

20. Review point

    This applies to organisations licensed to sponsors migrants under the points-based system. It means we will review their performance as a sponsor once they have issued a certain number of certificates of sponsorship.

21. Right of abode

    The right to live and work in the United Kingdom.

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