Resource Type: Children

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association Working Group on Children

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. […]

Briefing | Children

RMCC Briefing on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (February 2025)

The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium (RMCC) has produced a Briefing on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill in advance of its Second Reading in the House of Commons […]

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Adoption: caseworker guidance (8 August 2024).

Guidance updated to tell examiners that a customer may be able to register as a British citizen if they were adopted in the UK by a British citizen and the […]

ILPA documents | Family and Personal Migration

ILPA Letter to the Home Office Re: Sole Responsibility and Serious and Compelling Circumstances (9 July 2024)

ILPA has written to the Home Office to again raise concerns about the impact of the sole responsibility rule on parents and children and to emphasise how it is not […]

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

How to deal with customers of different ages: caseworker guidance (3 July 2024).

HM Passport Office staff Guidance updated to tell examiners the process they must follow if a child turns 12 during the application process.

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

How to deal with customers of different ages: caseworker guidance (3 July 2024).

HM Passport Office staff Guidance updated to tell examiners the process they must follow if a child turns 12 during the application process.

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

How to deal with customers of different ages: caseworker guidance (3 July 2024).

HM Passport Office staff Guidance updated to tell examiners the process they must follow if a child turns 12 during the application process.

ILPA documents | Refugee

ILPA and Refugee Council Letter to Home Office Re: Newborn Children of Refugees (30 March 2024)

ILPA and the Refugee Council sent the below joint letter to Dave Draper, Head of Asylum Children and Secondary Casework at the Home Office, on 30 March 2024 outlining key concerns […]