This section provides information on your rights and responsibilities while living in the UK.

While you are living in the UK, you have the right to:

• be treated fairly regardless of your race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation or any disability
• practise your own religion

• obey the law
• care for your children (for example, an adult must supervise children under the age of 16, and children aged between five and 16 must go to school)
• register with a police station near where you live (if you have been given permission to stay in the United Kingdom for more than six months)
• show respect to people of other faiths

Visit the UK Border Agency website for more information on your rights and responsibilities.