Resource Type: Family and Personal Migration

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

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s annual report: 2024 to 2025 (20 July 2026). 

First published.
Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Register child under 18 as British citizen (form MN1) (21 July 2026).

Added information to say customers applying from within the UK can use the citizenship priority service.
Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Become a British citizen by naturalisation (form AN) (21 July 2026).

Added information to say customers applying from within the UK can use the citizenship priority service.
Home Office Documents | Key Documents

How to apply for British citizenship as a person of Chagossian descent (20 July 2026).

Updated with details about the priority service.
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Form MN1: guidance (20 July 2026).

Updated guidance to reflect that the priority service is live.
Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Form S: guidance (20 July 2026).  

Updated with information about the priority service.
ILPA Blog | Family and Personal Migration

Earned Settlement: A Policy without Precedent. Part 3 – The Earned Settlement Plan: Partners and Children

BY BERNARD RYAN This is the third of four blog posts in which Bernard Ryan of the University of Leicester argues that the Government’s earned settlement plan, set out in […]
Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Appendix HM Armed Forces: caseworker guidance (20 July 2026).

Updated to allow children of single serving personnel, whose parent is exempt from immigration control, to be granted permission under this appendix.
Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Intercountry adoption: exception requests (16 July 2026). 

Updated the ‘Exception requests: adoptions from countries with special restrictions’ guidance to clarify the requirement to demonstrate a high threshold of exceptional circumstances where adoption from a restricted country is […]