Connaught Law Blog

A no recourse to public funds condition is imposed under section 3(1)(c)(ii) of the Immigration Act 1971 and it bars a defined list of…

The UK has no standalone “medical visa” — private patients come as visitors, either on the standard £135 six-month visa or the dedicated £234…

The Standard Visitor visa admits tourists, family visitors, business travellers and short-course students for up to six months: £135 for a single visa, long-term…

Appendix V is the legal engine of every UK visit: the genuine visitor test in V4.2, the financial provisions in V4.3 to V4.6 —…

A Home Office fee waiver removes the application fee and health surcharge for people whose human rights applications would otherwise be priced out of…

The Adult Dependent Relative route lets a British or settled person bring an elderly or disabled parent, grandparent, adult child or sibling to the…

A fresh claim is a narrow thing. Paragraph 353 of the Immigration Rules applies only where a human rights or protection claim has already…

A gap in permission and a gap in the settlement clock are two different problems, and most advice conflates them. The rules can preserve…

Most UK visa refusals carry no right of appeal at all. Whether you have one turns on what you claimed rather than on what…

A UK visit visa refusal carries no appeal right — but it is not final. The working remedies are a pre-action protocol letter that…

Where you apply from changes your UK visitor visa odds more than any single document: refusal concentrates by nationality and region, and the Home…

You do not pay stamp duty on genuine chattels — the carpets, curtains and free-standing furniture that come with a house. You do pay…