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• If your child is living in the UK illegally

  How to get your child a legal immigration status, such as British citizenship or ‘discretionary leave to remain’, if they are under 18 and living in the UK illegally.

• Check if you can get pre-settled status or settled status

  Find out how you and your family can stay in the UK and your rights after Brexit if you’re from the EU, European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland

• Benefits, services and your immigration status

  Information about benefits, services and your immigration status. Check if your immigration status lets you get benefits and healthcare.

• Getting married

  Information on who can get married, where marriages can take place, civil and religious services, marriages by proxy, bigamous marriages, polygamous marriages, forced marriages and second marriages

• Getting visas for your partner and children to live in the UK

  Check who can apply for partner and child visas, including the rules about your income

• Check if your immigration status lets you get free healthcare

  Find out about charges for NHS treatment if you're from outside the UK, check if you can get free NHS treatment and which treatment is always free

• Check if your immigration status lets you get benefits and help with housing

  Check if you’re allowed to claim public funds. Check what counts as public funds, and what else you might be able to claim

• Debt relief orders - what you need to know

  Explains how much it will cost to apply for a debt relief order, where and how to pay, and whether there is help available to pay the fee

• Prepare for an asylum interview

  Get help preparing for an asylum interview (or ‘substantive interview’) when you apply for refugee status - it’s a chance for you to put your case across to someone from the Home Office

• After you get refugee status

  Finding new housing and applying for benefits after you get refugee status