Guidance

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.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 20 June 2022
• Last updated: 18 October 2024 — See all updates

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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.

Published 20 June 2022
Last updated 18 October 2024 + show all updates

1. 18 October 2024

   Updated to clarify how to consider cases where an applicant has spent time in detention following a conviction and to clarify that the requirement for a child applying as a dependent of a person on the private life route to have been born in the UK has moved from validity to eligibility.

2. 25 May 2023

   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.

3. 20 June 2022

   First published.