Resource Type: Family and Personal Migration

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association Working Group on Family and Personal Migration

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Victims of domestic violence: caseworker guidance (27 February 2025).

Guidance updated to reflect changes to the eligibility for settlement outside the Immigration Rules. There is a further update to the section on the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS).

Minutes | Family and Personal Migration

Summary of ILPA Family & Personal Migration Working Group Meeting (13 November 2024)

Key document | Family and Personal Migration

DHSC Guide for International Care Workers

The Department of Health and Social Care has produced the below guide for international recruits working in the adult social care sector in the UK whose visa sponsor has had […]

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Long residence: caseworker guidance (18 December 2024).

Updated the guidance to reflect changes to the Immigration Rules excluding time with permission on Ukraine Schemes from counting towards the qualifying period requirement under the long residence route, clarify […]

ILPA Blog | Family and Personal Migration

Rescuing Love from the Hostile Environment

BY MATTEO BESANA By keeping families apart, the UK’s strict family migration rules, including the minimum income requirement, are harming people’s relationships, financial stability, mental health and well-being, with significant […]

Home Office Documents | Refugee

Home Office Evisas Banking Guide (27 December 2024)

The Home Office has produced the below ‘self-help guide designed to assist refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable people in self-advocating with banks as they transition to eVisa – there […]

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Memorandum of Understanding between the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons (19 November 2024).

MOU document has been updated.

Key document | Family and Personal Migration

‘Children: the hidden victims of harsh family migration rules’ (11 December 2024)

Please see the below press release issued by Reunite Families UK, in which Reunite Families UK, Coram Children’s Legal Centre and ILPA urge the Migration Advisory Committee ‘to put at […]

ILPA documents | Family and Personal Migration

ILPA Response to the MAC Call for Evidence: Family migration visa financial requirements (11 December 2024)

Please see below for ILPA’s response dated 11 December 2024 to the MAC Call for Evidence: Family migration visa financial requirements.