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This section applies to the following routes (to the extent set out in the route), where the applicant is applying as a dependent child:

• Appendix Domestic Workers in a Private Household
• Appendix Global Business Mobility Senior or Specialist Worker
• Appendix Global Business Mobility Graduate Trainee
• Appendix Global Business Mobility UK Expansion Worker
• Appendix Global Business Mobility Service Supplier
• Appendix Global Business Mobility Secondment Worker
• Appendix Global Talent
• Appendix Graduate
• Appendix Gurkha and Hong Kong military unit veteran discharged before 1 July 1997
• Appendix High Potential Individual
• Appendix Innovator Founder
• Appendix International Sportsperson
• Appendix Representative of an Overseas Business
• Appendix Scale-up
• Appendix Skilled Worker
• Appendix Start-up
• Appendix Student
• Appendix Temporary Work Creative Worker
• Appendix Temporary Work Religious Worker
• Appendix Temporary Work - Charity Worker
• Appendix Temporary Work International Agreement
• Appendix Temporary Work Government Authorised Exchange
• Appendix T2 Minister of Religion
• Appendix UK Ancestry

Age and Independent Life Requirement

CHI 1.1. The applicant must be under the age of 18 on the date of application unless CHI 1.2 applies.

CHI 1.2. The applicant may be aged 18 or over on the date of application if the applicant was last granted permission as the dependent child of their parent or parents.

CHI 1.3. The applicant must not be leading an independent life.

Care Requirement

CHI 2.1. If the applicant is under the age of 18 on the date of application, there must be suitable arrangements for the childs care and accommodation in the UK which must comply with relevant UK law.

Relationship Requirement: Entry Clearance and Permission to Stay

1. CHI 3.1. Where the application is for entry clearance or permission to stay, the applicant must be the child of a parent (P) where one of the following applies:
   1. (a) P has permission on the same route the applicant is applying for; or
   2. (b) P is, at the same time, applying for (and is granted) entry clearance or permission on the same route the applicant is applying for; or
   3. (c) P is settled or has become a British citizen, providing P previously had permission on the same route the applicant is applying for and the applicant had permission as Ps child at that time or was born since Ps last grant of permission and before P settled; or
   4. (d) P is settled or has become a British citizen, providing P had permission on the UK Ancestry route when they settled and the applicant is applying on the UK Ancestry route.

1. CHI 3.2. The applicants parents must each be either applying at the same time as the applicant or have permission to be in the UK (other than as a Visitor) unless:
   1. (a) the parent applying for or with entry clearance or permission to stay is the sole surviving parent or has sole responsibility for the childs upbringing; or
   2. (b) the parent who does not have permission:
      1. (i) is a British citizen or a person who has a right to enter or stay in the UK without restriction; and
      2. (ii) lives, or intends to live, in the UK; or
   3. (c) the decision maker is satisfied that there are serious and compelling reasons to grant the applicant entry clearance or permission to stay with the parent who is applying for or has entry clearance or permission or who is covered by CHI 3.2.(b).

CHI 3.3. If the applicant was born in the UK and is the child of a person with permission or their partner, the applicant must provide a full UK birth certificate showing the names of their parent(s).

Relationship Requirement: Settlement

1. CHI 4.1. Where the application is for settlement, the applicant must be the child of a person (P) where one of the following applies:
   1. (a) P is, at the same time, being granted settlement on the same route the applicant is applying for; or
   2. (b) P is settled or has become a British citizen, providing P previously had permission on the same route the applicant is applying for.

1. CHI 4.2. The applicant must:
   1. (a) have last been granted permission as a dependent child of P in CHI 4.1; or
   2. (b) have been born in the UK and be applying as a child of P in CHI 4.1; or
   3. (c) where the application is under Appendix UK Ancestry, the applicant must be applying as a child of P in CHI 4.1.

1. CHI 4.3. The applicants 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:
   1. (a) the person (P) in CHI 4.1. is the applicants sole surviving parent or has sole responsibility for the applicants upbringing; or
   2. (b) the decision maker is satisfied that there are serious and compelling reasons to grant the applicant settlement.