The Seven-Year Child Reasonableness Test - NA (Bangladesh)

The Home Office used to have a concession called DP5/96 under which there was a presumption that a child who had lived in the UK for a continuous seven year period, and their parents, should not be removed from the UK if no other countervailing factors were present.  This  policy ended in December 2008. On 09 July 2012 new immigration rules were introduced and the seven-year child concept was back for those cases involving children.  In this post we look at recent developments in immigration law regarding applications for leave to remain on the basis of 7 years' continuous residence as a child.

Statement of changes HC 194, 13 June 2012,  amended the rules to include Seven years residence by a child. Paragraph 7.6 of the Explanatory Memorandum reads: "the key test for a non-British citizen child remaining on a permanent basis is the length of residence in the UK of the child – which the rules set at least the last seven years, subject to countervailing factors. The