Guidance

Partners, divorce and dissolution: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on how to recognise a genuine and subsisting relationship and identify a valid divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 2 August 2019
• Last updated: 20 June 2022 — See all updates

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Partners, divorce and dissolution

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff handle cases that involve a partner, to recognise a genuine and subsisting relationship, and identify a valid divorce from marriage or dissolution of a civil partnership.

This guidance sets out the evidential requirements and factors that decision-makers should consider when assessing whether a relationship between an applicant and their partner is genuine and subsisting, and whether the requirements of the Immigration Rules are met.

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Published 2 August 2019
Last updated 20 June 2022 + show all updates

1. 20 June 2022

   Guidance updated to reflect legal marriage age rising in England and Wales to 18.

2. 6 April 2022

   Updated the Divorce and Presumption of Death section to comply with the latest protocols.

3. 10 December 2021

   The guidance has been updated.

4. 2 August 2019

   First published.