APPENDIX FM AND THE PARTNER ROUTE AND CLAIMS OUTSIDE THE RULES

This is one of a series of online courses that we offer in relation to family and private life claims in the context of immigration applications within and outside the Immigration Rules. Other linked courses include our Introduction to private life claims (an introduction and overview of running Rule 276ADE cases), Long residence and private life applications – Becoming an expert (covering the same subject area for practitioners wishing to become expert), Appendix FM – Parents, children and dependent relatives and Making a human rights claim (about obtaining a right of appeal on human rights grounds and pursuing a fresh human rights claim). We give detailed consideration to section 117 of NIAA 2002 and to arguments around proportionality in Long residence and private life applications – Becoming an expert and it is not realistic to repeat that without making the Appendix FM courses unduly long: we recommend it to you.

In this course we address the cases of partners inside and outside the rules,