UK Immigration Law

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…

International medical graduates sit PLAB 2 in the UK as visitors: the £135 Standard Visitor visa covers the exam, a retake extension can add…

Portugal’s Golden Visa remains open in 2026, despite persistent reports that the programme has ended. What actually closed, in October 2023, was the real…

The UK fiancé visa gives you six months to enter the UK, marry your British or settled partner, and switch onto the spouse visa…

The resident labour market test died in December 2020, and no sponsor has had to advertise a role for immigration purposes since. What replaced…

The Health and Care Worker visa is the Skilled Worker route at a discount for clinical professions: a £324 fee for up to three…