Immigration Services – Family Visitor
Immigration Services – Family Visitor
To come to the UK as a family visitor, you must be able to show that you will be visiting the following family members in the UK:
- spouse, civil partner, father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister;
- grandfather, grandmother, grandson or granddaughter;
- spouse or civil partner’s father, mother, brother or sister;
- son or daughter’s spouse or civil partner;
- stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother or stepsister; or
- a person you have been living with in a genuine and subsisting relationship, like marriage or civil partnership, for at least 2 years before the day you apply.
If you are refused entry clearance in this category you have a full right of appeal against the decision.
If you want to visit a family member who is not listed above, you should come to the UK as a general visitor which does not attract a full right of appeal.
Additionally the family member you are visiting must:
- be a British citizen;
- be settled in the UK;
- have been granted asylum in the UK; or
- have Humanitarian Protection status.
- You must also be able to show that:
- you are 18 or over;
- you intend to visit the UK for no more than 6 months (or 12 months if you will be accompanying an academic visitor);
- you intend to leave the UK at the end of your visit;
- you have enough money to support and accommodate yourself without working or help from public funds, or you and any dependents will be supported and accommodated by relatives or friends;
- you can meet the cost of the return or onward journey; and
- you are not in transit to a country outside the ‘Common Travel Area’ (Ireland, the UK, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands).
There is no general right of appeal unless you are sponsoring