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 and lawfully 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 always supervise children under the age of 16, and if they are aged between five and 16 they must go to school)
• register with a police station in the area you are living in (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.