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