Hello bototo
I have read through your past posts & it seems that your mum is in India and you want her to come over on a visitor's visa and then apply for ILR on SET(F)
It also does not seem that she is financially mainly dependant on you because she has her own funds that she could survive on the for the next 5 years or so. She may even have a pension or other income. Does your mum have any other income?
Has your mum already got a visitor's visa, say a 5 years one. Has you mum had an appeal recently, where she said something like "I will definitely leave the UK, please give me a visitor's visa"?
I can forsee problems and I am going to quote a much better authority than me here:
"Where the application comes post-entry from someone who entered as a visitor or a student, it may be sensible to enquire whether there has been a change of circumstances since entry, to deal with any allegation of deception on entry (ie, by failing to indicate an intention to remain as a dependant relative. [sic] But on such an application, the requirements of dependancy..........are to be applied by assessing the notional condition of the applicant if he or she were in the home country at the date of decision, rather than seeking actual dependency etc before arrival"
para 11.127, page 768,
Immigration Law and Practice in the United Kingdom, Seventh edition, Ed Ian A Macdonald QC and Ronan Tool
"The dependency must be of necessicity, not of choice. In Zaman v Entry Clearance Officer, Lahore, an elderly Pakistani farmer and his wife applied to join their son in the UK. The father owned two farms and the income from these was given away to three sons who were still resident in that country, in accordance with custom. Nevertheless, the Tribunal held that they were not wholly or mainly dependent, since their dependence was not necessary.
para 11.129, page 770, ibid.
"An application for variation of leave may be refused if the person has failed to honour any declaration or undertaking given orally or in writing as to the intended duration and/or purpose of that person's stay. The situation arises most often when a family visitor decides to apply for leave to remain in the UK with the sponsoring family member, having said on arrival or at entry clearance interview that he or she would return home at the end of the visit.............So far as 'undertakings' are concerned Tribunal authorities under earlier rules held that the only undertakings which count are those which amount to false representations. In other words, a genuine change of circumstances since the 'undertaking' will not prevent an extension of leave. This appears to be the way the rule is interpreted by the Home Office in the IDI, which state that where there is good reason for the applicant's change of mind, such as unforseen circumstances, leave may be granted"
para 4.38, page 212, ibid.
I know you have said you have a solicitor, but I am just pointing out that these sorts of application are not always successful.
If you mum comes in to the UK and lies to the IO at the desk because she knows she is going to apply for settlement in the UK, this could get her refused further leave in the UK.
I don't want to rain on your parade, but perhaps she would be better off applying in India. Also appealing for 3 years like someone mentioned on here must cost a lot of money, and a lot of heartache.
Regular remittances do not count if they just improve the person's lifestyle, but they do not need them.
People do swith to dependent relative in the UK, but it is not automatic, nor necessarily easy in my opinion.
This is just my two pence worth, & I thought you might like it from an authority other than anonymous posters on a forum.
Regards
thanks to the input from all of you.