Indicative Visa fees for 2015/16

[Niza_carson]

From the fee table, it states that the current fee (2015-2016) is £925 for naturalisation (British Citizenship). I could swear that most of us paid £1005. So what is the Home Office on about because that table is so inaccurate.(https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... 016-17.pdf)

[CR001]

From the fee table, it states that the current fee (2015-2016) is £925 for naturalisation (British Citizenship). I could swear that most of us paid £1005. So what is the Home Office on about because that table is so inaccurate.(https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... 016-17.pdf)

£925 PLUS £80 ceremony fee = £1005

[Petaltop]

25% increase in one year
and no one against it coz its for non EEA people...

EEA citizens pay full fee for British citizenship too.

[WR1]

WOW , last year and this year, there seems to be massive fee hikes. I recall the ILR fees going up by probably £30-£50 every year (don't quote me on that) for the last ten years. In April 2015, it shot up from £1,093 to £1,500, a £407 increase, the biggest ever. This years proposed fee is now £1,875, yet another £375 hike.

Was lucky to book a ILR PEO at the old fee of £1093 (plus £400 premium fee, so total £1493) having advanced booked it and changing dates for the one needed, otherwise it would have cost £1900.

Now, BC this year will cost £1,236 if the proposed fee goes ahead, up from £1005.

[secret.simon]

The government has indicated that it is aiming to move towards a user-pays approach to public funding rather than funding through public taxation.

It has the stated aim of making the immigration service self-funding. And as EEA citizens can not be charged any meaningful amount, the burden falls disproportionately on non-EEA citizens. I expected citizenship application fees to increase much more significantly as that is the one fee that EEA citizens are not exempt from and that many are applying for in fear of a Brexit. Then again, the government is increasing the legal maximum for both naturalisation and registration fees to £1500. So, it will be able to increase fees even mid-year if it feels the need to.

The user pays approach is also being applied to policing, transport (via rail fare increases) and the criminal justice system (through cuts in legal aid).

And with the lack of any opposition with any rational, sensible plans (both Corbynite Labour and the SNP have plans that appeal to the emotions, but not to the rational mind) and the decimation of the moderate Lib-Dems, we are all in it for the next ten years at least. Then again, the new batch of moderate Conservative MPs, like Johnny Mercer and Heidi Allen, give hope.

[viktorscott]

It's the time of another year that UK home office is increasing its visa fees. I don't remember how many years they've been doing this, but as a foreigner who has settled in this country, and contributed his expertise and skills at some of his best years to this country, I cannot help to have a look at the new 2016 fees home office is proposing.

Shock, shock.. the spouse visa and settlement visa fee has gone so high... I wonder how many family will suffer again, will have to stay separate, will empty all their savings for a stamp on their passport, maybe only valid for next a few years. I can only say: this country is getting ugly, far from what I used to think of when I first came.

While I agree a political target is needed to control immigrant, it should be preventing new ones from coming in, or persuading foreign students not to stay. But please don't punish whom is already here, worked for a few years and paid their taxes. They may just bought their first house, had their first baby. Asking them to leave is like pulling young plants out of the pot they just get used to, how cruel! Before I came to this country, I heard that family value is embraced here, but now Home Office is denying this value under the name of government!

Two thousand years ago at an eastern kingdom, its king tried very hard looking for a best horse in his kingdom, but couldn't find it for three years. Three years later his servant found the dead horse's bone. The king is angry. But the servant said to him that if the king is willing to pay 500 golds for the bone, he will get another best horse. The king took the suggestion, and someone did arrive at the palace, with his best horse. Why? The horse owner said that if the king cherish the horse bone, he will take care of his horse too. 10 years ago I came to this country thought I am the horse bone, now I believe I have wasted my time, what about you – foreign born people in this country?

When terrorist attached Paris, I condemn them; When terrorist attached anywhere, I condemn them. I pray for all the victims and couldn't tolerate any violence. But I believe the home office's action should take some responsibility if we are attacked some time in the future. A very simple reason: if you don't want somebody to be here, don't take them in; if you took them here, treat them fair. I believe most people are born kind, but the evil side can turn up if they are treated unfairly, as a human nature. Shall we only condemn the evil behaviour, or shall we also be aware of what aroused the evil behaviour?

[haris_zam]

It's the time of another year that UK home office is increasing its visa fees. I don't remember how many years they've been doing this, but as a foreigner who has settled in this country, and contributed his expertise and skills at some of his best years to this country, I cannot help to have a look at the new 2016 fees home office is proposing.

Shock, shock.. the spouse visa and settlement visa fee has gone so high... I wonder how many family will suffer again, will have to stay separate, will empty all their savings for a stamp on their passport, maybe only valid for next a few years. I can only say: this country is getting ugly, far from what I used to think of when I first came.

While I agree a political target is needed to control immigrant, it should be preventing new ones from coming in, or persuading foreign students not to stay. But please don't punish whom is already here, worked for a few years and paid their taxes. They may just bought their first house, had their first baby. Asking them to leave is like pulling young plants out of the pot they just get used to, how cruel! Before I came to this country, I heard that family value is embraced here, but now Home Office is denying this value under the name of government!

Two thousand years ago at an eastern kingdom, its king tried very hard looking for a best horse in his kingdom, but couldn't find it for three years. Three years later his servant found the dead horse's bone. The king is angry. But the servant said to him that if the king is willing to pay 500 golds for the bone, he will get another best horse. The king took the suggestion, and someone did arrive at the palace, with his best horse. Why? The horse owner said that if the king cherish the horse bone, he will take care of his horse too. 10 years ago I came to this country thought I am the horse bone, now I believe I have wasted my time, what about you – foreign born people in this country?

When terrorist attached Paris, I condemn them; When terrorist attached anywhere, I condemn them. I pray for all the victims and couldn't tolerate any violence. But I believe the home office's action should take some responsibility if we are attacked some time in the future. A very simple reason: if you don't want somebody to be here, don't take them in; if you took them here, treat them fair. I believe most people are born kind, but the evil side can turn up if they are treated unfairly, as a human nature. Shall we only condemn the evil behaviour, or shall we also be aware of what aroused the evil behaviour?

pure gem!

[vinny]

Massive increase in family immigration fees for 2016-17 > New immigration and nationality fees for 2016 to 2017.

The changes will be implemented on 18 March 2016 rather than the usual date of 6 April.

[vinny]

Update: new immigration and nationality fees