With a UK guest visa, also known as a standard guest visa or a UK visitor visa, foreign nationals are permitted entry into the UK for a limited time of up to six months as visitors, business travelers, understudies, and for other approved purposes.
We ask you to determine if you need a travel visa in order to enter the UK, which you can do on the Domestic Office website. Depending on your country of citizenship, you may be able to enter the UK without a visa for up to six months.
To obtain a UK visit visa, you must meet specific requirements, such as having sufficient funds to cover your stay and having a sincere intention to leave the UK at the end of your visit.
The various types of UK visit visas, which have a variety of uses, include the Trade Guest Visa, Family Guest Visa, Marriage Guest Visa, Common Guest Visa, Allowed Paid Engagement Visa, and Chinese Visit Bunch Visa.
What a visitor visa can his not chanced to do no matter what!!
You are allowed to engage in the following activities while in the UK for a maximum of six months as a visitor visa holder:
Tourism (vacation or holiday, for example)
Get married (assuming that after marriage you plan to live abroad)
Go see your loved ones or friends.
Spend no more than 30 days volunteering for a UK-registered charity.
Traveling to another country via the United Kingdom
Conduct specific business-related tasks (such as an interview or meeting).
A program for school exchange
Recreational programs lasting no more than 30 days
Study (no more than six months of courses should be taken)
Finish a placement
Take a test.
As a professor, senior physician, or dentist
Get medical care
Having a UK visitor visa will prevent you from:
Perform both paid and unpaid labor.
Access public funds (benefits, for example).
Live here by returning time and time again.
Obtain a marriage visitor visa in order to get married, enter into a civil partnership, or give notice of a civil partnership.
Requirements for a UK visitor visa
Applicants must fulfill the following general eligibility requirements in order for their UK Visitor Visa application to be approved:
You must honestly plan to leave the UK when your stay is over.
You need to have enough money to sustain yourself while you’re in the UK.
You can pay for your subsequent travels, and Using a visitor visa to make multiple visits won’t allow you to live in the UK.
If you are traveling to the UK for medical treatment, to study, to finish a placement or an exam, or as a senior physician or dentist, you might also need to fulfill additional eligibility requirements. If you would like to apply for a UK visitor visa, you can get a free consultation from our immigration lawyers.
Sincere desire to depart the United Kingdom
Your genuine intentions to visit will be evaluated by the Home Office based on a number of factors, such as your reasons for coming, your past immigration history, the number and length of previous visits, your economic and personal ties to your home country, and other factors.
Enough money for support
There is no minimum amount of money required of visitors to the UK by the Home Office. They will estimate the probable expenses of your visit (such as lodging, meals, and transportation) and contrast them with the available funds. To ascertain whether you will likely have enough money for your stay here, they will also take into account your current financial obligations.
Refusing to live in the United Kingdom
The Domestic Office will have to confirm that you are not using the Guest Visa as a way to live in the UK by conducting multiple visits. They will look at your travel history, the reason you are visiting, how long you plan to stay, how many times you have visited the UK in the last 12 months (including how long you stayed at each event), how long it has been since your last visit, and whether you have spent more time in the UK than in your home country.
Documents needed for a UK visitor visa
Depending on your reason for visiting the UK, different records will be needed. You might be asked
Dates of your trip to and from the UK
When in the UK, your address
An explanation of the approximate expenses for your visit
Your residential address
How long have you been residing at this address?
Your parents’ names and birth dates
Your yearly salary
Information about any civil, criminal, or immigration violations
Your past ten years’ worth of travel experiences
The address and phone number of your employer
Name, birthdate, and passport number of your partner
The information about your relatives in the UK
certificate of tuberculosis (TB) testing if you plan to stay for longer than six months (depending on the country you are coming from).
How to submit an application for a UK visitor visa
The following crucial actions must be taken in order to apply for a UK visitor visa:
Before continuing, find out if you require a visitor visa.
Fill out and submit an online visitor visa application for the UK (keep in mind that each family member must submit their own application and pay the necessary fee if you are traveling with them).
Make the application fee payment.
Schedule a visit to a nearby Visa Application Center (VAC).
Attend your VAC appointment to have your photo taken, have your fingerprints scanned (biometrics), and provide any documents that the Home Office requires.
Your application for a visitor visa will typically be decided within three weeks.
Can your visitor visa be extended?
Although the UK visitor visa is only meant to be used for brief visits, if it was granted for less than six months, you might be able to extend it for up to six months. Only if you are here for medical reasons, as an academic, or as a graduate who needs to finish a clinical attachment or retake a Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board (PLAB) test will your visitor visa be able to be extended beyond six months. At the moment, extending a visitor visa costs £1,000.
If your visitor visa is denied
The Home Office may deny visitor visas for a variety of reasons, such as if it thinks:
You are residing in the UK under the Visitor Visa program.
You endanger the security of the country.
You previously violated immigration laws, and you have pending criminal convictions.
You don’t seem like a real guest.
You don’t have enough money to live comfortably in the UK.
In most cases, you won’t be able to appeal a visitor visa denial. Generally speaking, we advise creating a new application that includes the explanation for your rejection. Our immigration attorneys can help you with your new application and make sure it satisfies the requirements for a favorable result.
