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  • Range of typical starting salaries: Assistant Immigration Officers start around £15,000-£16,500 and Immigration Officers £21,000 - £22,000, plus London weighting where appropriate, (salary data collected June 2010).
  • Senior Immigration Officers can earn up to approximately £31,000 (salary data collected June 2010).
  • Additional payments are made for weekends and bank holidays.
  • Pensionable language allowances may be payable to those who have been successful in departmental language examinations. These allowances vary, depending on the language spoken.
  • A minimum of 36 hours a week is the usual number of working hours.
  • Immigration officers’ work shifts include nights, weekends and public holidays, to provide 24-hour coverage at most ports.
  • Job-sharing, part-time opportunities and career breaks are available, subject to staffing requirements and the agreement of line managers.
  • Immigration officers are based at over 50 airports and seaports around the UK and at the Channel Tunnel.
  • The majority of jobs are in London and the South East, but new staff must be prepared to work at any location and are allocated to ports according to need. You may apply for a transfer after approximately two years' service (three years if posted to Heathrow), but frequent moves are unusual and unlikely.
  • Staffing levels vary greatly, from major ports with a large workforce to comparatively remote locations with just one or two officers.
  • Civil Service regulations apply to ensure that officers do not engage in activities that might conflict with their professional duties.
  • A total of 44% of immigration officers (55% of all staff) in the UK Border Agency (UKBA)  are women.
  • Uniforms are required to be worn whilst carrying out official front line operational duties.
  • Many ports are extremely busy, which can make for a stressful working environment.
  • Shift work can have lifestyle implications, but family-friendly policies apply where possible.
  • Officers based at Dover must also be prepared to work in France and Belgium.
  • On the whole, travel during the working day is rare, except for those involved in enforcement duties with people who have entered the UK illegally.
  • Temporary overseas postings are also available to UK embassies and high commissions.
 
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Written by AGCAS editors
Date: 
June 2010
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