Dependent visa for widow mother

[john84]

Hi All,

I am on ILR and looking to bring my mother here in the UK on dependent visa.
She is a widow, 75+ age, and in a very weak state.
Back home we can find a care staff to help her day to day chores, but the bigger problem is she being alone on her own, having no child around her to talk, and that makes her overall depress n sick
I can call her on visit visa here in UK but she wouldn’t have access to NHS, and if she fell sick I don’t know how NHS will treat her or how much they will charge $$$$ for private treatment. I have seen insurance plans, because of her age factor insurances are charging almost un-affordable premium.
Now the only realistic option is to apply dependent visa for her, which I hear is very difficult and rare.

Can someone please suggest do I have any strong grounds for a successful dependent visa??

[Wanderer]

You'd still have to undertake to provide heath insurance if you did get the Adult Dependent Visa. The chances of success are practically nil with the this visa, it's been designed with the catch 22 scenario in mind.

Plus the cost is £1980 or something and the expected refusal there would mean no more visit visas.

Search the forum, this comes up often and the advice given is always the same.

[john84]

Thanks for your response.

But how come the private insurance needs to be arranged when someone is on dependent visa?

[Wanderer]

Thanks for your response.

But how come the private insurance needs to be arranged when someone is on dependent visa?

I suspect it's because of the very nature of it, the applicant being both dependent and elderly mean they are going to need a lot of health care and tie up a lot of bureaucracy, if you think about it it makes perfect sense. I don't think it's unreasonable to commit the applicants to pay health charges since there will certainly be some and more as the applicant gets older, and no chance of said person contributing.

Remember a country is run like a business now - and elderly dependant is going to be all costs to the State and the State mitigates this by:

1. Making the visa very expensive

2. Make the applicant provide financial undertakings

3. Make the visa's terms so tough it's practically impossible

4. Making it knows that applying and failing will result in visit denials