Resource Type: Family and Personal Migration

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

Home Office Documents | Family and Personal Migration

Suitability: sham marriage or civil partnership (16 November 2021)

Replaced staff guidance on applications where a person is involved in a sham marriage with a new version below.
Home Office Documents | Family and Personal Migration

Dependent family members in work routes (immigration staff guidance) (10 November 2021)

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 […]
Home Office Documents | Family and Personal Migration

Family life (as a partner or parent), private life and exceptional circumstances (25 October 2021)

Added document: ‘Concession for granting longer periods of leave and early indefinite leave to remain’.
Minutes | Family and Personal Migration

ILPA Family and Personal Migration Working Group Meeting Minutes 08.09.21
Home Office Documents | Family and Personal Migration

Draft Home Office Guidance for Decision Makers on Discretion

Please see below the Home Office’s draft guidance for decision makers on discretion, which is currently a work in progress and should not be shared beyond ILPA Members.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

Family life (as a partner or parent), private life and exceptional circumstances (18 October 2021)

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

Seminar Recording – ILPA Handbook for Legal Practitioners: Using the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration as an Interpretative Tool

Zoom Recording: https://bit.ly/2YWIO7f This event is planned for all immigration and asylum practitioners to learn about the new ILPA Handbook for Practitioners on the Global Compact for Migration. It will […]
Key document | Family and Personal Migration

Asylum Operations Update: Family Asylum Claims (24 September 2021)

Please, find attached an update regarding Family Asylum Claims.
Home Office Documents | Family and Personal Migration

Support for British and non-British nationals in Afghanistan (24 September 2021)

Added link for British nationals in Afghanistan to register their presence and receive important updates.