Private life: caseworker guidance
Immigration staff guidance on how to consider applications for permission to stay in the UK on the basis of private life.
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UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff should consider applications for permission to stay in the UK on the basis of private life, made by:
- a person who arrived in the UK as an adult
- a person who arrived in the UK as a child
- a person who is now over 18 who arrived in the UK as a child
It also tells decision makers how to deal with applications from a dependent child born in the UK to a person on the private life route.
Updates to this page
Last updated 25 May 2023 + show all updates
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This guidance has been updated to: include links to new guidance covering access to public funds; remove information relating to police registration; include guidance about consideration of compelling compassionate factors.
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First published.