Partners: the English-language requirement
Produced in partnership with Jo Renshaw of Turpin Miller
Practice notesPartners: the English-language requirement
Produced in partnership with Jo Renshaw of Turpin Miller
Practice notesAll overseas and in-country applicant partners seeking initial leave as a partner (including as a fiancé(e) or proposed civil partner) under Appendix FM must provide prescribed evidence that they either meet or are exempt from the English-language requirement. The only exceptions are where they are applying for Leave to remain in the UK and fall within the exceptions set out in the Immigration Rules, Appendix FM, para EX.1, or, where they are applying either for entry clearance or leave to remain, under the residual cases ‘Exceptional circumstances’ provisions found in the Immigration Rules, Appendix FM, para GEN.3.2. Paras EX.1 and GEN.3.2 are two arms of the ten-year route to settlement.
Persons who obtained initial leave as a partner under Part 8 (as they applied on or before 8 July 2012) and who are seeking to extend their stay under Part 8 will have to provide evidence that they meet the relevant English-language requirement. This is the case whether or not they met an English-language requirement in their previous application. The English-language requirement in Part 8 largely mirrors
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