Resource Type: Family and Personal Migration

First published Home Office response to a report on the family returns process by the Independent Family Returns Panel for 2019 to 2020. The response can be found below.

Updated ‘Adult dependent relatives’ guidance below.

Replaced staff guidance on applications where a person is involved in a sham marriage with a new version below.

Co-habitation requirements for unmarried partners have been clarified; guidance on exceptional circumstances for parents where the other parent cannot travel; clarifying the status requirement of a second parent; updating references […]

Added document: ‘Concession for granting longer periods of leave and early indefinite leave to remain’.

Please see below the Home Office’s draft guidance for decision makers on discretion, which is currently a work in progress and should not be shared beyond ILPA Members.

The ‘recourse to public funds’ section of the document has been updated below.