Do I need evidence about my personal situation or is general country condition evidence enough for H&C?

General country condition evidence alone is generally not enough on its own for a successful H&C application — decision-makers expect that broader evidence to be connected clearly to your own personal circumstances, showing specifically how those general conditions would actually affect you, rather than simply describing difficult conditions in a country in the abstract.

Country condition evidence still matters and is often an important part of the application, particularly around hardship if returned, but it works best as context for personal evidence, not as a substitute for it. An application built mainly around general reports, without a clear and specific link to the applicant's own life, health, family situation, or personal history, tends to be much weaker than one that ties the two together explicitly.

Because H&C applications are assessed on the applicant's specific, personal circumstances taken as a whole — establishment, family ties, hardship, and any children's best interests among them — the strongest applications combine solid country condition evidence with detailed, personal, well-documented evidence about the applicant's own life and how the general conditions would concretely affect them, rather than leaning heavily on one type of evidence alone.