Children

This topic looks at certain applications made by children under the Immigration Rules, Part 8 and the Immigration Rules, Appendix FM. It covers:

1. •

   applications for indefinite leave to enter or remain by children:

   1. ◦

      whose parents both have settled status (or where one parent has limited leave as a partner under Part 8 or Appendix FM and is applying for settlement at the same time as their child), or

   2. ◦

      who have one parent with settled status and no other parent who has or will be applying for limited leave as a partner (in the various specified situations where this is permitted) or compelling circumstances which make the child’s exclusion from the UK undesirable even though both parents are not yet settled, and

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   applications for limited leave to enter or remain by the children of persons granted (or being granted) limited leave as the partner of a person with settled status

For the purpose of this overview, ‘person with settled status’ includes British citizens and the other limited categories of person who can sponsor children under Part 8 and Appendix FM.

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