Letter to the Home Office by a child whose parent has NRPF
This letter was written to accompany a Change of Conditions application - the application that people make to ask for the no recourse to public funds (NRPF) condition to be removed from their visa. The letter shows how difficult it had been for this single parent household to make ends meet, which resulted in a family of 4 facing eviction. It is clear how distressing this has been for the child who wrote the letter and no doubt their mother and 2 siblings as well.
The family did receive recourse to public funds as a result of the application that this letter accompanied. They received help to make this application from The Unity Project, a small charity that helps people to make change of conditions applications for free. Unfortunately, as the change of conditions application can only be made once an individual or family finds themselves in destitution, it can be argued that even a positive outcome always arrives too late to safeguard people from experiencing the trauma of destitution.