Resource Type: Family and Personal Migration

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

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.

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Form MN1: guidance (20 July 2026).

Updated guidance to reflect that the priority service is live.

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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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Appendix Child Relative (Sponsors with Protection): caseworker guidance (16 July 2026).

Updated to provide guidance on issuing a Form for Accompanying an eVisa (FAV).

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British citizenship: caseworker guidance (29 July 2026).

This guidance has been updated, in Documents needed as evidence under section 1(1)(a), to tell examiners to refer to Examiner interventions: using parents’ British passport numbers for information on when […]

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Form UKM: guidance (20 July 2026).

Updated applying to register as a British citizen if born before 1983 to a British mother, application processing times and information on returning your biometric residence permit (BRP).