Katie Dilger
Katie is a Senior Solicitor at Wesley Gryk, a specialist immigration firm. Her practice covers a full range of immigration and nationality matters. She has a particular specialisation in complex family cases under the Immigration Rules and on the basis of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the right to family and private life. She acts for a wide range of individuals and families.
Since 2016, Katie has been a co-convenor of the Family and Personal Migration working group of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
(ILPA). She is also a deputy editor of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law.
Katie was part of the LexisPSL team from 2016 to 2017.
Practice Area
Panels
- Consulting Editorial Board
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2004
Membership
- Immigration Law Practitioners' Association
Education
- London School of Economics
- Brasenose College, Oxford
1 Contributions by Katie Dilger
PRACTICE NOTES
Child dependants under the UK Immigration Rules (Appendix Children and Part 8): sole responsibility, serious and compelling reasons, evidence, safeguarding and key case law
The following alternative requirements apply to numerous applications under the Immigration Rules that involve children:
sole responsibility, and
serious and compelling family or other considerations which make exclusion of the child undesirable, and suitable arrangements have been made for the child’s care
These provisions are ordinarily engaged only where, after a grant of leave, the child will live in the UK with a single parent (unless the other parent has died). In the context of serious and compelling considerations, they also cover situations where a child is coming to join one parent or, under the Immigration Rules, Part 8, para 297, a relative who is not a parent. In short, these criteria are primarily aimed at cases where a child will not be living with both parents in the UK, and where clear, adequate care arrangements exist alongside reasons showing that excluding the child would be undesirable...
Immigration
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