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PRACTICE NOTES
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
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