Justice and Home Affairs Committee
All families matter: An inquiry into family migration
1st Report of Session 2022-23 - published 28 February 2023 - HL Paper 144
Contents
The experience of separated families
An inconsistent interpretation of “family”
Table 1: Inconsistent eligibility rules
An outdated understanding of family
The best interests of the child
Box 3: The Government’s obligations to children in immigration law
The Adult Dependent Relative route
The route for spouses and partners
Box 5: The financial requirement from 2012 to date
Family reunion for child refugees
Table 3: Grants of refugee status to children
Delays in processing applications
Box 6: Statistics on appeals against immigration decisions
Table 4: Fees in respect of routes to settlement in the UK for some common scenarios
Box 7: How application fees are set
Difficult access to legal advice
Box 8: Law Commission report on the simplification of the Immigration Rules
Chapter 4: The societal impact of family migration policies
Self-exile: people leaving the country
The position of local authorities
An additional burden for the Home Office
Chapter 5: Overarching recommendations
List of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/work/6818/family-migration/publications/ and available for inspection
at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.