Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 518
IMMIGRATION
The Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 2003
Made
5th March 2003
Laid before Parliament
10th March 2003
Coming into force
1st April 2003
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 90(2) and (3) and 112(1), (2) and (3) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002( 1 ), hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.
2. —(1) For the purposes of section 90(1) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 , a “member of the applicant’s family” is any of the following persons—
(a) the applicant’s spouse, father, mother, son, daughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece or first cousin;
(b) the father, mother, brother or sister of the applicant’s spouse;
(c) the spouse of the applicant’s son or daughter;
(d) the applicant’s stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother or stepsister; or
(e) a person with whom the applicant has lived as a member of an unmarried couple for at least two of the three years before the day on which his application for entry clearance was made.
(2) In these Regulations, “first cousin” means, in relation to a person, the son or daughter of his uncle or aunt.
Home Office
Beverley Hughes
Minister of State
5th March 2003
2002 c. 41 ; the powers in section 90(2) are extended by section 90(3).