Resource Type: Children

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association Working Group on Children

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Safeguarding and consent issues: HMPO caseworker guidance (28 May 2025).

Replaced with updated version – updates are listed in the guidance.
ILPA documents | Children

ILPA Letter to the Home Office Re: De Facto Adopted Children in Work and Other Immigration Routes (13 May 2025)

ILPA sent a letter to Sam Worby, Head of Simplification and Systems Unit at the Home Office, on 13 May 2025 regarding an issue concerning adopted children of individuals on […]
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Registration as a BOTC – children: caseworker guidance (10 April 2025).

Guidance updated with new sections on section 17(1) setting out the scenarios where a child should normally be registered.
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Apply for permission to stay in the UK as a child of a close relative with protection status in the UK: FLR(P) (10 April 2025).

Updated form FLR(P) to reflect the updated fee which came into force on 9 April 2025.
Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Appendix Child Relative (Sponsors with Protection): caseworker guidance (9 April 2025).

Updated in line with Immigration Rules changes. The previous versions, titled Child staying with or joining non-parent relative (protection), can be found in the guidance archive.
ILPA documents | Children

ILPA Letter to Home Office Re: Children of Victims of Domestic Abuse Applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain (8 April 2025) 

ILPA sent the below letter to the Home Office on 8 April 2025 setting out an issue concerning the fee waiver process for children of victims of domestic abuse who […]
ILPA documents | Refugee

ILPA Letter to Home Affairs Select Committee Re: Updated Good Character Guidance (1 April 2025)

Further to our letter to the Home Secretary of 26 February 2025 and the Home Office response of 3 March 2025, we have sent a letter to Dame Karen Bradley […]
ILPA documents | Refugee

ILPA Letter to Home Secretary Re: Updated Good Character Guidance (26 February 2025)

We have sent a letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper following the recent amendments made to the Good Character Guidance, published on 10 February 2025. Our letter urges the Government […]
Home Office Documents | Children

Home Office Letter Re: Change to Solihull Children’s Workstream (4 February 2025)

Please see the below letter the Home Office sent to all relevant Local Authorities on 4 February 2025 with an update on a change to the Solihull children’s casework workstream. […]