Child Sole responsibility documents preparation

[Damzek]

Hi

1) I currently received my employment letter for ILR application. However, my employer didn't put any date on the. Can I still use it for my application?

2) I have renewed my passport recently. Do I need to submit a copy of previous passport with all it's pages?

Thank you for your support with this

[AmazonianX]

Hi

1) I currently received my employment letter for ILR application. However, my employer didn't put any date on the. Can I still use it for my application? Official correspondence should have date on it even can be hand written.

2) I have renewed my passport recently. Do I need to submit a copy of previous passport with all it's pages? All passports with pages containing relevant UK immigration history should be scanned and uploaded.

Thank you for your support with this

[Damzek]

Thank you so much. Have a great day

[Damzek]

Hi

I relocated to the UK in 2019 on a skilled worker visa. My child joined me in the UK one year later at the age of 2. I am due ilr application August 2024. My child came on a dependent visa. I have been separated from the father before I left for the UK. Father lives in a different country. But, I assume under circumstantial situation, my child was granted the child dependent visa as the decision was for the child to live with me (as stated in the father's letter to the embassy for the child dependent visa). My mother looked after my child when I left for UK. I am solely responsible for my child - but no court order/document to support this. Only letters from her nursery, schools, gp and clubs in the UK could prove that i am solely responsible for my child. No contact from the father.

What's your best suggestion:

Can I apply for ilr for my child when I am applying for mine, without a letter from the father? My child has been in the UK now for 3 years and 2 months.

Or should I extend my child dependent visa after I apply for my ilr?

The father did submit a letter for my child dependent visa as his name is on the child's birth certificate. But since my child came in the UK, I have sole responsibility for her as he is not supporting the child.

Thank you for your response

[zimba]

If you can prove sole responsibility, you both can settle at the same time. Sole parental responsibility means that one parent has abdicated or abandoned parental responsibility, and the remaining parent is exercising sole control in setting and providing the day-to-day direction for the child’s welfare. Children do NOT have any minimum residence requirement for ILR and they can settle with a parent who has sole responsibility, in the same application

There are specific factors that will be considered in assessing sole responsibility:

•Whether the parents are married/in a civil partnership
•If the marriage/civil partnership is dissolved – which parent was awarded legal custody
•If the sponsoring parent has migrated to the UK – how long have they been separated from the child and what relationship they have with the child
•If the sponsoring parent has migrated to the UK, the nature of the child’s care arrangements before and after they migrated
•Who bears the child’s maintenance costs and at what proportion
•Who makes the important decisions about the child’s upbringing, for example, where the child lives, which school they attend, etc

Check out the 'Sole parental responsibility' section in this guide: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... tances.pdf

[Damzek]

Thank you very.

[Damzek]

Hi

Good day.

I am in the process of requesting letters from my child's school and GP and clubs to support sole responsibility role in the ILR application. We are due for application in August 12 (we are in the UK). My child's clubs closes July 4 and I will have to request the letters before this date. This would make the letters more than one month old before our application. Would this be ok or they must be in one calendar month of date of application?

Should the letters for the school and gp be dated one calendar month as well before application?

I know for my job application letter, it will have to be one calendar month. My school closes July 19, so I can get it between July 12 and July 19.

[Damzek]

Sorry for reposting the above question in a new topic. I am still trying to become more familiar with the platform. I appreciate the good support you have been proving.

I do await your response to the above question.

Thank you

[zimba]

There is no such requirement. Provide any letters that can support the application for the child

[AmazonianX]

The time frame you refer to for specified evidence Appendix FM

[vinny]

I think you will be okay.

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CHI 4.3.

The applicant’s other parent (who is not the person (P)) in CHI 4.1. must be being granted settlement at the same time, or be settled or a British citizen, unless:

• (a) the person (P) in CHI 4.1. is the applicant’s sole surviving parent or has sole responsibility for the applicant’s upbringing; or
• (b) the decision maker is satisfied that there are serious and compelling reasons to grant the applicant settlement; or
• (c) the applicant is applying as a dependent child under Appendix Victim of Domestic Abuse

[Damzek]

Hi

I have received letters from my child's school, doctor, and after school clubs, and thr nursery she went to. I also has a copy of medical operation permission form that I signed for my child to underwent and operation here in the UK. I have also written a letter giving permission for my child to obtain ILR explaining our previous situation while outside of the UK, and how my child arrived here in 2021 on a child dependent visa - father not in the uk. We are in the UK and due for ilr.

Before uploading and submitting permission letter and all the other mentioned letters, should I put these in one pdf document, and upload as one file? Or I should upload these letters separately?

[Salvadore]

Unfortunately HO does not accept any legal documents (i.e. court order) or letters from schools, doctors, etc.

I am lost as to "WHAT ELSE SHALL I PROVIDE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY???"

Would HO send someone to home country to live with them for a year to be convinced that the child is solely cared by one parent and no contact with the other? It is seriously what they need to do in order to see the facts and realities, because they are refusing every single document that can prove the sole responsibility....

Just unbelievable, and I started thinking that this is a deliberate strategy to stop immigrant kids coming to this country... Such as shame, because they are damaging family union pretending that they are protecting it...

[zimba]

Unfortunately HO does not accept any legal documents (i.e. court order) or letters from schools, doctors, etc.

I am lost as to "WHAT ELSE SHALL I PROVIDE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY???"

Would HO send someone to home country to live with them for a year to be convinced that the child is solely cared by one parent and no contact with the other? It is seriously what they need to do in order to see the facts and realities, because they are refusing every single document that can prove the sole responsibility....

Just unbelievable, and I started thinking that this is a deliberate strategy to stop immigrant kids coming to this country... Such as shame, because they are damaging family union pretending that they are protecting it...

Sole responsibility requirements do not allow you to separate a child from a parent who is also involved in the life of the child. It also prevents the uninvolved parent from making any future immigration claims based on having a child in the UK. None of the documents that you mentioned on their own proves sole responsibility, it is the circumstances around the life of the child that determine that, as you see above. If the other parent is involved, the sole responsibility claim is often undermined

[Salvadore]

"it is the circumstances around the life of the child that determine that" what does that mean? Can you give an example, please? The other parent doesn't want anything to do with the kids, remarried, lives in another city, hasn't seen the children for 4 years, since divorce. can one wise person give the example of what they have submitted to HO as a proof of sole responsibility and that has been accepted, please?

[zimba]

"it is the circumstances around the life of the child that determine that" what does that mean? Can you give an example, please? The other parent doesn't want anything to do with the kids, remarried, lives in another city, hasn't seen the children for 4 years, since divorce. can one wise person give the example of what they have submitted to HO as a proof of sole responsibility and that has been accepted, please?

You already have a thread on this issue in the relevant forum, not sure why you tagged your query here. There are extensive links given above which shed more light on this. You need to prove that all the important decisions is the child's life are being made by a single parent.

The immigration rules cover this in detail under Appendix Children: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... e_parental

You are not considering whether the child’s parent (or anyone else) has day-to-day responsibility for the child, but whether the parent has continuing sole control and direction of the child’s upbringing, including making all the important decisions in the child’s life. If not, then they do not have sole parental responsibility for the child. You must carefully consider each application on a case-by-case basis. The burden of proof is on the applicant to provide satisfactory evidence that a parent has sole parental responsibility.

For entry clearance cases, it may be necessary to use local intelligence relating to the applicant’s home country or location to advise on what evidence you should expect to see, or what is likely to be available that you could reasonably ask for, as well as how much weight to give to particular types of evidence. Country-specific information can be found in the country of origin information or via the relevant UK embassy or high commission staff.