Immigration Update

On 9 July 2022, the first people granted permission to stay under the ten-year private and family life routes will start to qualify for indefinite leave to remain.

Now, just in time for that anniversary, the Home Office has introduced what it describes as a “simplified” approach to such cases. Paragraph 276ADE(1) — which governs permission to stay on private life grounds — is going, replaced by a new Appendix Private Life.

Meanwhile, the requirements for ILR on the ten-year family route are being put into two other new appendices: Appendix Settlement Family Life and Appendix Relationship with Partner.