ILR under Appendix Settlement Family Life (ten-year route): eligibility, continuous residence, suitability, relationship requirements and dependent children (UK)

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This Practice Note provides an eligibility matrix outlining the criteria for settlement-also referred to as indefinite leave to remain (ILR)-for partners or parents under the Immigration Rules, Appendix Settlement Family Life (the ten-year route to settlement). This Appendix was introduced into the Immigration Rules on 20 June 2022 as part of the Home Office initiative to streamline and simplify those Rules. Appendix FM to the Immigration Rules still sets out the provisions for limited leave for partners and parents on the five and ten-year routes, and the rules for settlement via the five-year route. The Practice Note also considers the terms governing settlement for dependent children within the Appendix itself. Alongside reorganising the relevant Rules into a simplified structure and layout, the Appendix contains several policy shifts from the previous ten-year route settlement provisions for partner applicants in Appendix FM, notably:

Applicants may aggregate time spent on all family and private life routes, and on any other route that leads ultimately to settlement, towards the ten-year qualifying period, but:
- where time is counted in another (non-family/private life) route, they must not have entered the UK unlawfully and must also have completed at least one full year in total...

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