Visit Visa - Changes For Chinese Citizens

[bamboozled]

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone had information on the upcoming changes for Chinese citizens in January. (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-a ... sh-economy)

Does this mean Chinese people applying for the visit visa will get a 2 year duration with the 6 month visa being scrapped completely? Slightly confused about what exactly is changing and how it will affect applications

I was looking at applying for a visit visa for my wife to come over in February and unless I hurried the application through in the next week it looks like I will be getting caught up in the changes...

Cheers,

[Wanderer]

The way I see it it's still subject to the usual rules just you get one of 2 year validity usually reserved for those with proven travel record to UK.

[bamboozled]

The way I see it it's still subject to the usual rules just you get one of 2 year validity usually reserved for those with proven travel record to UK.

Thanks, so that means each visit would still be a maximum of 6 months with the visa valid for 2 years?

[Wanderer]

The way I see it it's still subject to the usual rules just you get one of 2 year validity usually reserved for those with proven travel record to UK.

Thanks, so that means each visit would still be a maximum of 6 months with the visa valid for 2 years?

The article is not clear but my guess is HO won't break the habit of a lifetime and let people reside in UK for a whole year or more under a visit visa. Opens up all sorts of cans of worms, taxation issues etc.

[bamboozled]

Ah that does make alot of sense, thanks for that!

I'm guessing my application will be refused whatever they do in January but that's another story