Immigration Rules Appendix Family Reunion (Sponsors with Protection)

Appendix Family Reunion (Sponsors with Protection)

This Appendix, also known as refugee family reunion, is now closed to new applications pending a review. For those who applied under Appendix Family Reunion (Sponsors with Protection) as a partner or child of a person with protection status before 1500 on 4 September 2025, the Appendix FRP rules in place on that date will apply to a pre-flight partner or dependent child applying to stay with or join a person who has protection status or settlement on a protection route in the UK.

There is a separate route under Appendix Child Relative (Sponsors with Protection) for a child to stay with or join a close relative, for example a sibling, who has protection status in the UK.

There is a separate route under Appendix FM: family members for a partner or child to join a sponsor who has protection status, is settled or a British Citizen in the UK on the basis of their family life.

Validity requirements for Family Reunion

FRP 1.1. DELETED.

  1. FRP 1.2. DELETED.
  1. FRP 1.3. DELETED.

FRP 1.4. DELETED.

Suitability requirements for Family Reunion

FRP 2.1. DELETED.

FRP 2.2. DELETED.

Eligibility requirements for Family Reunion

Identity requirement for Family Reunion

FRP 3.1 DELETED.

Relationship requirements for a partner applying for Family Reunion

  1. FRP 4.1. DELETED.

FRP 4.2. DELETED.

Relationship requirement for a child applying for Family Reunion

  1. FRP 5.1 DELETED.

Family life requirements for a child applying for Family Reunion

  1. FRP 6.1. DELETED.
  1. FRP 6.2. DELETED.

Eligibility under Article 8 of the Human Rights Convention

FRP 7.1. DELETED.

FRP 7.2. DELETED.

Decision on an application for Family Reunion

FRP 8.1. DELETED.

Period of grant for Family Reunion

FRP 9.1. DELETED.

  1. FRP 9.2. DELETED.

FRP 9.3. DELETED.

Conditions of grant for Family Reunion

  1. FRP 10.1. DELETED.

Transitional provisions

FRP 11.1. Applications made before 1500 on 4 September 2025 by a partner or child of a person with protection status will be decided under the Appendix Family Reunion (Sponsors with Protection) rules in force on that date. In any other case, the partner or child of a person with protection status must apply under Appendix FM to stay with or join that person until further notice.