Resource Type: Family and Personal Migration

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

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UKVI External Relations March 2026 newsletter (31 March 2026)

The March 2026 Stakeholder newsletter from UKVI’s External Relations Team can be downloaded below. It provides information under the following headings:

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Exemptions for visa applications: caseworker guidance (20 March 2026).

Changes to reflect the introduction of digital records of exemption for applicants from inside the UK and wider language updates.

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Appendix International Forces: caseworker guidance (19 March 2026). 

Updated postal address for submitting requests for recognition of civilian component status.

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Family life and exceptional circumstances: caseworker guidance (24 March 2026). 

Updated to clarify the approach for considering applications under Appendix FM and Appendix Private Life.

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Form B(OTA): guidance (13 March 2026). 

Guide B3, ‘travelling to and from the UK’ section: updated a reference to certificates of entitlement to the right of abode, following the change to digital certificates.

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Form AN: guidance (13 March 2026). 

The section: “travelling to and from the UK after naturalising” has been updated.

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Form ROA: guidance (13 March 2026).

A new section “travel to the UK” has been added to the guidance.

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Registration as British if your mother had connection to a British Overseas Territory (9 March 2026).

Guidance updated to reflect that a certificate of entitlement to the right of abode is now digital and can no longer be placed in a passport.

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Settle in the UK as a Grenfell Tower survivor: form SET(GT) (3 March 2026).

Updated the declaration in form SET(GT).