How to Bring Your Parents to the UK

Thứ sáu - 26/04/2024 23:11
Bringing your parents to the UK can be difficult, but it's quite doable under the right circumstances. As an adult, the only way to bring your parents over to the UK is if they require daily care, and you plan to provide it. If you meet...

Bringing your parents to the UK can be difficult, but it's quite doable under the right circumstances. As an adult, the only way to bring your parents over to the UK is if they require daily care, and you plan to provide it. If you meet this requirement, your parents can fill out a visa application, which may allow them to reside permanently in the UK with you!

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Meeting the Requirements for Dependent Relatives

  1. Step 1 Have permanent status or citizenship.
    For your parents to come over, you must be a permanent resident in the U.K. That means that you need to have citizenship, permanent leave to remain, permanent residency, refugee status, or humanitarian protection.[1]
    • Basically, if you are legally staying in the UK on a semi-permanent basis, you can likely bring your parents over.
  2. Step 2 Ensure your parents need long-term care.
    The main way you can bring over your parents is if they need assistance with daily care tasks, including household tasks, personal hygiene tasks, and/or medical tasks. Your parents must need this care because of illness, disability, or age.[2]
    • Also, they must not be able to get this care where they are living right now, which includes not having any relatives there who can provide that support. Exceptions may be made if care is not affordable.
    • Both parents must apply at the same time if they are both still alive and still married. In other words, if one parent could depend on the other for care, the UK government won't allow just the one parent who needs care to apply. Both parents must need care.[3]
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Applying for a Dependent Relative Visa

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Finishing the Application

  1. Step 3 File an appeal if your parents are denied entrance.
    Your parents have a right to appeal the decision if their visa application is refused.[13] You parents must appeal within 28 days of receiving a refusal letter using the IAFT-6 appeal form, which you can find at https://immigrationappealsonline.justice.gov.uk/IACFees/.
    • You can find a paper form at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/688323/iaft-6-eng.pdf.
    • As of 2017, the fees for an appeal are 80 pounds for a paper hearing or 140 pounds for an oral hearing. For a paper hearing, the appeal is decided on the documents you and your parents provide. For an oral hearing, you or your parents can go and argue the case.
    • The fees can be waived if you're receiving Legal Aid from a United Kingdom-based legal representative.[14]
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Warnings

  • These applications are often denied, even if you do meet the basic criteria. The UK Government would prefer that you pay for care for your parents in their home country. Make sure your parents provide all the information required so that they aren't denied for a technical reason.
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