What Does The Parent Mean For This Application?

The word ‘parent’ is broader than the ordinary meaning of natural birth parents:

• the stepfather of a child whose father is dead and the reference to stepfather includes a relationship arising through civil partnership;
• the stepmother of a child whose mother is dead and the reference to stepmother includes a relationship arising through civil partnership and;
• the father as well as the mother of an illegitimate child where he is proved to be the father;
• an adoptive parent, where a child was adopted in accordance with a decision taken by the competent administrative authority or court in a country whose adoption orders are recognised by the United Kingdom
• in the case of a child born in the United Kingdom who is not a British citizen, a person to whom there has been a genuine transfer of parental responsibility on the ground of the original parent(s)’ inability to care for the child.