The UK dependent visa route allows family members of certain visa holders to join or stay with them in the UK. The visa route for dependants is available to spouses, civil partners, unmarried partners, and children under 18. It is commonly used by families of individuals who are in the United Kingdom on work or study visas, such as the Skilled Worker visa, Health and Care Worker visa, or Student visa.
Primary visa holders need to sponsor their family members applying as dependents. Applicant
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International students currently in the UK on a previous Tier 4 (General) Student visa (the current student visa has replaced this) can switch to a Skilled Worker Visa (formerly known as Tier 2 visa) without being required to leave the country. This route is popular among Tier 4 holders who have secured a job offer from a UK employer.
The Skilled Worker visa allows qualifying overseas nationals to come to or stay in the UK to work in an eligible role for an approved sponsor. An approved spons
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The Scale-up Worker visa allows high-growth businesses to hire overseas talent with greater ease and flexibility compared to other UK work visas.
The UK Scale-up Worker visa, on the other hand, allows qualifying workers to come to the UK to work for an employer initially (first six months) in a sponsored role. However, after the first six months, the Scale Up worker visa holders no longer require sponsorship by their UK employer.
Once the visa is granted, it opens several doors for oversea
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For many non-British nationals residing in the UK with a valid visa, leave under Section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 provides an important safeguard. Section 3C automatically extends a person's visa while a decision on their application to extend their leave, appeal, or administrative review of any refusal decision is pending. This prevents such a person from becoming an overstayer in the UK. Even though this sounds like a straightforward protection, in reality, there can be a legal grey area
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The EU Settlement Scheme's continuous residence test is being made significantly more generous for pre-settled status holders by introducing a new absence rule to sit alongside the existing limits.
From 16 July 2025, Annex 1 of Appendix EU is amended under the provisions of the Statement of Changes HC 836, laid on 24 June 2025, redefining the "continuous qualifying period" for the pre-settled status holders so that they have an additional route to complete the required five years' continuous
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If you are awaiting a decision from the UKVI on a UK visa application, you would like to track the progress of your application, as it can be crucial to planning ahead, especially where you are facing travel deadline pressure for a decision. Hence, whether you are applying from overseas for entry clearance or leave to enter the UK, or you have applied from within the UK to extend your existing visa or to switch to another UK visa category, it is important to know how to track your visa applicati
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Working in the UK can be a dream-come-true life event for many foreign nationals. To work in the UK, you will usually need a work visa or work permit. Working in the UK through most work visas, such as a UK skilled worker visa, often requires a formal job offer. But there are other routes that allow individuals to work in the UK without having prior employment. Each of these visas has its own requirements and application procedures. So, it is important to explore each of them in detail and then
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Those who wish to come to the UK (fresh visa) or remain in the UK (visa extension), ILR, BRP, or Naturalisation will need to pay an application fee as part of the process. The Fee is published on the Home Office website - Fee from 01 July 2025
How much the applicants will need to pay depends on the type of visa, where they are applying from, and whether they are required to pay additional costs (such as the IHSC (immigration healthcare surcharge), BRP (biometric residence permits), and any VA
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Exceptional circumstances applications are usually UK family visa applications under the partner and parent routes. When you fail to meet the financial or other requirements under Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules, you may still be able to obtain leave to enter or leave to remain based on exceptional circumstances. However, exceptional circumstances do not exempt you from all rules.
Where an applicant makes an exceptional circumstances application under the GEN 3.2 of Appendix FM as a spo
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From the introduction of Appendix FM in July 2012, the requirement for suitability was also introduced. The Suitability requirement works hand in hand with the General Grounds for Refusal provided under part 9 of the immigration rules.
The suitability requirement applies at the stages of Entry Clearance application that are the applications made from outside the UK or application for leave to remain and Indefinite Leave to Remain, the applications made form inside the UK.
Appendix FM, wh
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