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Family immigration
Latest from the Migrants' Rights Network
Appendix FM guides
A collection of posts explaining Appendix FM, which contains the rules on non-EU family migration
How to apply for a UK spouse or partner visa
20th August 2018
Visas for children under Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules
25th September 2018
How to apply for a visa as the parent of a child in the UK
25th June 2018
How to apply for leave to remain as a victim of domestic violence
26th September 2018
How to apply for leave to remain as a bereaved partner
11th October 2018
Forms and guidance
- 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
- Home Office policy on no recourse to public funds found unlawful, again
- Things are looking up for undocumented migrant children
- Children can now apply for a waiver of citizenship fees
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
Top organisations working on families and immigration
- 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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No change to settlement rules for Zambrano carers despite Akinsanya judgment
Zambrano carers who already have permission to stay in the UK under the Immigration Rules cannot use the EU Settlement Scheme as a fast track to permanent residence, the Home Office has confirmed. The department announced today that it would not be ch ...
13th June 2022Can Ukrainians take refuge in the UK? The Ukraine Family Scheme and other routes
The Home Office has put in place 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’s “core plan” ...
25th May 2022New statement of changes to the Immigration Rules: HC 1220 (Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine)
The Home Office is writing two special visa schemes for Ukrainians into the Immigration Rules and adding a third for people already here. Statement of changes HC 1220 codifies the existing Ukraine Family Scheme and Homes for Ukraine Scheme (described ...
30th March 2022How come my Ukraine Scheme visa doesn’t last three years as promised?
As a result of the almost aggressively complex way our immigration system works, not just in law but procedure as well, Ukrainians applying under the Ukraine Family Scheme or Homes for Ukraine may appear to be granted less time in the UK than they wer ...
29th 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 2021