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UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff decide applications for settlement by those on the family and private life routes.
This includes:
the 5-year family settlement route for partners and parents, including provisions for bereaved partners (Appendix FM)
the 10-year family settlement route (Appendix Family Settlement)
the private life settlement route (Appendix Private Life)
Published 17 August 2022 Last updated 31 January 2024 +show all updates
Updates throughout - see 'changes from the last version of this guidance' for full details.