Overseas Visitors Records Offices

Overseas Visitors Records Offices were police departments across the United Kingdom from 1915 to 2022. The best known example was that for the Metropolitan Police District (MPD), known from 1915 to the 1990s as the Aliens Registration Office.

They were initially set up to administer restrictions on and registration of enemy aliens living in the UK as stipulated in the Aliens Restriction Act 1914, but were continued post-war for all unnaturalised foreign residents. Until Brexit some categories, such as European Union citizens, were exempt and on 4 August 2022 the Home Office suspended the requirement to register, effectively abolishing the Offices.