Resource Type: Family and Personal Migration

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

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

UKVI External Relations April 2026 newsletter (30 April 2026)

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

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Fees for citizenship applications (8 April 2026).

Updated the fees in line with the fee uprating on 8 April 2026.

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Hong Kong British National (Overseas) (BNO) route: caseworker guidance (8 April 2026).

The guidance has been updated to reflect that eligibility for the BN(O) route has been expanded to BN(O)s’ adult children who were born on or after 1 July 1979, the […]

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Appendix HM Armed Forces: caseworker guidance (7 April 2026).

Updated to add a table to support decision making on medical discharge cases.

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Registering children as British citizens: caseworker guidance (1 April 2026).

Changes made to add links to the automatic acquisition guidance which explains when a person is settled.

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Form RS1: guidance (6 March 2026). 

Updated the ‘Travelling to and from the UK after becoming a British citizen’ section.

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Apply for a British Overseas Territory or Commonwealth country visa (30 March 2026). 

Updated to reflect that the UK no longer processes applications on behalf of Turks and Caicos Islands.

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Exemptions for visa applications: caseworker guidance (27 March 2026).

The Appendix HM Armed Forces: caseworker guidance and the Appendix International Forces: caseworker guidance has been added.

Home Office Documents | Key Documents

Caseworker Guidance: Appendix Victim of Domestic Abuse (26 March 2026).

Updated to reflect changes to the Immigration Rules made in Statement of Changes HC 1691 (laid on 5 March 2026), update the ‘Types of evidence’ section, add a new section […]