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The applicant must require long-term personal care to perform everyday tasks due to age, illness or disability and that care must be either not available or not affordable in the country where the applicant is living.
The applicant must apply for and obtain entry clearance as an Adult Dependent Relative before their arrival in the UK.
The partner of an Adult Dependent Relative may also apply for entry clearance as an Adult Dependent Relative if they are the partner of either the parent or grandparent of the sponsor who is applying at the same time.
Where a couple, who are both the parents or grandparents of the sponsor, are applying as Adult Dependent Relatives only one of them needs to require long-term personal care.
An Adult Dependent Relative is granted settlement if their sponsor is settled in the UK or is a British Citizen. In other cases, the Adult Dependent Relative is granted temporary permission which expires on the same date as their sponsors temporary permission and once in the UK they can apply for settlement or further permission to stay in line with their sponsors permission.
There is a separate route for an Adult Dependent Relative of a BN(O) Status Holder under Appendix Hong Kong British National (Overseas).
- ADR 1.1. A person applying for entry clearance or permission to stay as an Adult Dependent Relative must apply online on the gov.uk website on the specified form as follows:
- (a) for applicants outside the UK, form Join or accompany a family member; or
- (b) for applicants in the UK, form Further leave to remain Human Rights.
- ADR 1.2. An application for entry clearance or permission to stay as an Adult Dependent Relative must meet all the following requirements:
- (a) any fee and Immigration Health Charge must have been paid (unless the applicant has been granted a fee waiver in whole or part); and
- (b) the applicant must have provided any required biometrics; and
- (c) the applicant must have provided a passport or other document which satisfactorily establishes their identity and nationality; and
- (d) the applicant and their sponsor must both be aged 18 or over at the date of application.
ADR 1.3. An applicant applying for permission to stay must be in the UK on the date of application and must have, or have last been granted, entry clearance or permission to stay as an Adult Dependent Relative.
ADR 1.4. An application which does not meet all the validity requirements for the Adult Dependent Relative route may be rejected as invalid and not considered.
- ADR 2.1. The applicant must not fall for refusal under the suitability grounds set out in:
- (a) S-EC.1.2 to S-EC.1.8. and S-EC 2.2 to S-EC 3.2. of Appendix FM if applying for entry clearance; or
- (b) S-LTR.1.2. to S-LTR. 2.1 and S-LTR.3.1 to S-LTR.4.5. of Appendix FM if applying for permission to stay.
- ADR 2.2. If applying for permission to stay, the applicant must not be:
- (a) in breach of immigration laws, except that where paragraph 39E applies, that period of overstaying will be disregarded; or
- (b) on immigration bail.
Entry requirements for an Adult Dependent Relative
ADR 3.1. A person seeking to come to the UK as an Adult Dependent Relative must apply for and obtain entry clearance as an Adult Dependent Relative before they arrive in the UK.
ADR 3.2. A person applying for entry clearance as an Adult Dependent Relative must, if Appendix Tuberculosis applies, provide a valid medical certificate confirming that they have undergone screening for active pulmonary tuberculosis and that this tuberculosis is not present in them.
Relationship requirements for an Adult Dependent Relative
- ADR 4.1. An applicant applying for entry clearance or permission to stay as an Adult Dependent Relative must be one of the following:
- (a) the parent; or
- (b) the grandparent; or
- (c) the son or daughter; or
- (d) the brother or sister,
- of a person in the UK (the sponsor).
- ADR 4.2. The sponsor of the applicant must be one of the following:
- (a) a British Citizen; or
- (b) settled in the UK; or
- (c) in the UK with protection status; or
- (d) an EEA national with limited leave to enter or remain granted under paragraph EU3 of Appendix EU on the basis of meeting condition 1 in paragraph EU14 of that Appendix.
ADR 4.3. Where the applicant is applying for permission to stay, the sponsor must be the same person who sponsored the applicant when they were last granted entry clearance or permission as an Adult Dependent Relative.
Dependency requirements for an Adult Dependent Relative
ADR 5.1. The applicant, or if the applicant is applying as a parent or grandparent, the applicants partner, must as a result of age, illness or disability require long term personal care to perform everyday tasks.
- ADR 5.2. Where the application is for entry clearance, the applicant, or if the applicant is applying as a parent or grandparent, the applicants partner, must be unable to obtain the
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