Resource Type: Family and Personal Migration

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

ILPA submitted a detailed response to The Justice and Home Affairs Committee’s Inquiry into Settlement, Citizenship and Integration on 23 January 2026. Our response can be downloaded in full below, […]

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ILPA sent the below letter to the Human Rights and Family Policy Unit at the Home Office on 13 January 2026.

On 20 November 2025, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood MP announced sweeping changes to the current routes to settlement. The Government has opened a consultation on the changes which will close […]

A Statement of Changes (‘SoC’) to the Immigration Rules (HC 1491) was published on 9 December 2025 and can be read here, alongside its accompanying Explanatory Memorandum. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary […]

ILPA submitted the below response to the Home Affairs Select Committee’s Inquiry into Routes to Settlement on 8 December 2025.

Further to a request from the Home Office for feedback on proposed changes to the Appendix Victim of Domestic Abuse (VDA) Guidance, ILPA submitted the below comments on the draft […]