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Children
Latest from the Refugee & Migrant Children's Consortium
Key posts about children
Can children and parents apply to remain after seven years’ residence?
28th November 2018
Visas for children under Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules
25th September 2018
Briefing: how lawyers can help young people in the asylum system
10th December 2018
ILPA best practice guides
- General guide to working with children with some fantastic ideas and suggestions
- Best interests, voice of the child, age disputes, representing children and more
- Comprehensive and really useful guide to other resources
- How to claim legal aid in immigration cases involving children
Other guidance
- General guidance for all tribunals
- Immigration and Asylum Chamber specific guidance
- Fantastic and comprehensive resource and is essential reading for anyone working with refugee children
- By the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which is very useful generally on the right of children to be heard and also includes a short section on migrant children
- extremely useful on judicial process and are essential reading for representatives and judges. See section D entitled ‘Child friendly justice during judicial proceedings’ in particular.
- The Supreme Court gave detailed consideration to the issues around the hearing of evidence of children in the context of family proceedings
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Passports can be issued to British children abroad without abusive father’s consent
In April 2021 the High Court held that Her Majesty’s Passport Office was wrong to insist on signed consent for child passports from an abusive father overseas. That judgment has now been robustly upheld by the Court of Appeal following a disastrous ...
5th August 2021Supreme Court upholds Home Office age assessment policy
The Supreme Court has upheld the policy of treating asylum seekers who claim to be children as adults if two Home Office officials think that the person looks significantly over 18. The case is R (BF (Eritrea)) v Secretary of State for the Home Depar ...
2nd August 2021British citizenship for children whose parents miss the EU settled status deadline
On 1 July 2021, the British Nationality Act 1981 (Immigration Rules Appendix EU) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021 No. 743) introduced a new section 10A to the British Nationality Act 1981. This new section is aimed at ensuring that certain childr ...
1st July 2021“Reasonable” to expect UK-born 11-year-old to move to Bangladesh, Court of Appeal says
The protection afforded to children who are long-term UK residents has been further diluted in a new Court of Appeal decision, NA (Bangladesh) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 953. The judgment is the latest in a line of ca ...
30th June 2021Social care rights for vulnerable children in Wales
Immigration law, as everyone working in it knows, is not a devolved area and not likely to become so. It’s therefore easy for immigration practitioners to assume that all the important stuff is the same across the UK. That’s not the case for socia ...
26th May 2021Fresh blow to “no recourse to public funds” scheme
Rules restricting migrants’ access to benefits are back in the spotlight following a new High Court decision, which found that aspects of the “no recourse to public funds” (NRPF) scheme fail to protect the rights of children. The case of ...
4th May 2021