Adult Dependent Relatives

The Adult Dependent Relative route is designed to allow those lawfully settled in the UK to sponsor their adult dependent relative(s) for long-term migration to the UK, in order to provide them with necessary care.

The route was introduced in the Statement of Changes: HC 194 on 9 July 2012, stating that its aim is to:

‘reduce the burden on the taxpayer for the provision of NHS and local authority social care services to ADRs [Adult Dependent Relatives] whose needs can reasonably and adequately be met in their home country; and, secondly, to ensure that those ADRs whose needs can only be reasonably and adequately met in the UK are granted immediate settled status’

In practice, this route is most likely to be utilised by those settled

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