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
- Making sense of sole responsibility for child visas in immigration law
- Age assessments: how to challenge a negative decision
- Home Office plans to reintroduce use of reasonable force to remove families with children
Spouses
- How to apply for a UK spouse or partner visa
- What are the financial requirements for UK spouse and partner visas?
- Exceptional circumstances in a spouse or partner visa application under Appendix FM
Dependent adults
- Getting an adult dependent relative visa is hard but not impossible
- Statement of changes HC 1496: asylum, EU Settlement Scheme, and restrictions on students
- New Appendix Adult Dependent Relative immigration rules
- 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
How to apply for a UK spouse or partner visa
Spouses and partners of British citizens or people settled in the UK can apply for a visa to join or remain with their loved ones. These applications are dealt with by the Home Office under the immigration rules. Specifically, the part of the rules th ...
5th September 2023Getting an adult dependent relative visa is hard but not impossible
Adult dependent relative visas have one of the highest refusal rates of all immigration routes. Between 2017 and 2020, 96% of applications were refused. In this article I look at why these applications often go wrong and what you can do to try make th ...
29th August 2023What are the financial requirements for UK spouse and partner visas?
The Appendix FM minimum income requirements for spouse and partner visas can catch out even those with enough money to meet them. Having the money only takes you so far: the income must come from a specific source, must be calculated in a certain way, ...
21st August 2023Manufacturing risk: the exclusionary effect of positive discretion in the family immigration rules
The immigration rules are full of harsh general rules accompanied by potential exceptions. These exceptions require a subjective judgment to be made and they make the rules complex. They also manufacture risk for applicants, making the outcome of immi ...
9th May 2023Exceptional circumstances in a spouse or partner visa application under Appendix FM
In other posts we have looked at the requirements to be satisfied by a spouse or partner who seek leave to enter or remain. Under Appendix FM, the sponsor can be a British citizen, a settled person, a refugee, or someone with humanitarian protection, ...
5th April 2023New Appendix Adult Dependent Relative immigration rules
The adult dependent relative rules have been buried in Appendix FM since their inception on 9 July 2012. From 1 June 2023, they have been transposed into their own standalone Appendix Adult Dependent Relative. The new appendix was announced in the 9 M ...
17th March 2023