Resource Type: Children

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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