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Question for Home Office

UIN HL2021, tabled on 16 October 2017

To ask Her Majesty's Government in which circumstances the Home Office differentiates between adopted and natural children for (1) immigration purposes, and (2) other purposes.

Answered on

26 October 2017

Where an adoption has taken place under UK law, or in accordance with laws that are recognised as lawful in the UK, adopted children are not treated differently to biological children by the Home Office for immigration or other purposes.

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Home Office