Adoption
(asked on 16th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
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 by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 26th 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.