Family immigration
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Appendix FM guides
A collection of posts explaining Appendix FM, which contains the rules on non-EU family migration
- Family immigration rules
- Evidence and other requirements
- Internal guidance for Home Office officials
- Guidance and information on eligibility, applying and fees
- Policy on treatment of and evidence required from
- Policy on inter country adoption cases
Children
- Afghan boy unlawfully removed from UK for 18 months can claim damages
- Home Office not required to help work out whether a child is British
- Intended parents can bring Ukrainian surrogate mothers to the UK
Spouses
- The 180-day absence rule doesn’t apply to people with a spouse or partner visa
- Sponsor changing job is not a reason to refuse a spouse visa
- There’s actually no right to family life in the UK
Dependent adults
- Getting permission to remain in the UK as an adult dependent relative: not likely
- Do dependent parents actually need to be dependent under the EU Settlement Scheme?
- Carer for 87-year-old British woman allowed to stay in the UK after Zambrano appeal
- The Joint Council for the welfare of Immigrants has been campaigning for justice in immigration, nationality & asylum law & policy since 1967
- Campaign group set up by mothers affected by the UK's harsh family immigration rules.
- BritCits was formed in 2012 in direct response to the attack on British citizens and residents with non-EEA family members
- MRN campaigns for better immigration policies and migrants' rights
- The Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association is a membership organisation which aims to promote and improve the advising and representation of immigrants, provide information to members and others on domestic and European immigration, asylum and nationality law and secure a non-racist, non-sexist, just and equitable system of immigration refugee and nationality law practice
- The Commissioner has a statutory duty to promote and protect the rights of all children in England in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Can Ukrainians take refuge in the UK? The Ukraine Family Scheme and other routes
The Home Office has put in place or announced some immigration concessions and special visa schemes in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This includes the very important Ukraine Family Scheme. The department is also reviewing ...
24th March 2022Statement of changes HC 1118: new family and private life rules
On 9 July 2022, the first people granted permission to stay under the ten-year private and family life routes will start to qualify for indefinite leave to remain. Now, just in time for that anniversary, the Home Office has introduced what it describ ...
17th March 2022Dependent relatives to get EU Settlement Scheme family permits
The UK’s agreements on the post-Brexit rights of EU, EFTA and Swiss residents allow beneficiaries to sponsor their non-European family members to live with them in the UK. There are broadly two types of eligible family members: direct family mem ...
8th November 2021Early settlement concession for young people living half their lives in the UK
Some young people born or brought up in the UK without immigration status can now apply for settlement after five years rather than ten. The change in policy comes in a new and very welcome Home Office concession, published yesterday. What follows is ...
26th October 2021The 180-day absence rule doesn’t apply to people with a spouse or partner visa
Many UK immigration categories impose a requirement that the visa holder must not be outside the UK for more than 180 days in any 12-month period — that is, if the person wants to apply for indefinite leave to remain. Joanna and Nath have explor ...
30th September 2021Did the Home Office inadvertently strengthen the rights of Zambrano carers in 2018?
In Velaj (EEA Regulations – interpretation; Reg 16(5); Zambrano) [2021] UKUT 235 (IAC) the Upper Tribunal looked at whether the Home Office accidentally liberalised the regulations on when the primary carer of a British child can be removed from ...
22nd September 2021