Next steps: As you do not have permission to stay in the UK, you should now leave the country, or you may be removed. And you voluntarily left right after the decision, therefore you didn't become an overstayer. See my previous comment with the link to the guidance. In your case, section 3C leave ...

I then left the UK in a week. If you left the UK while an immigration application is in progress, that application is automatically considered withdrawn. If you had any Section 3C leave as a result of an ongoing immigration application, that would have come to an end too. So your Section 3C leave ...

Edit: ignore my last question. The letter you received with the invalid application notice should say what options you had after the decision was made. In the letter, there is no mention of a re-entry ban. They simply stated that the application was rejected as invalid. The exact text: " Your ...

An application being rejected as invalid means it wasn’t an application at all. So you can’t be banned for not having made an application. Next time make a valid application. You haven’t contravened immigration regulations! If my student visa ended and I applied for a Skilled Worker visa, the perio ...

Hi, I was on a student visa in the UK and applied for a Skilled Worker visa on the day my student visa expired. However, I couldn’t attend a UKVCAS appointment due to a lack of available slots, which led to my application being rejected as invalid. I then left the UK in a week. Do I have a re-entry b ...