Elderly dependent relative - disclosure of savings

[neelraura]

Hello Friends
Please can you help!!

I am applying for elderly dependent visa for my parents. I am British and my parents are in India. My parents have visited me 8 times in the past 5 years and have never exceeded their stay in the UK. My father is 75 and my mother is 72. I am the only son of my parents and I do not have any brother or sister. I have a four bedroom house enough to accommodate my parents. I am sending money to parents for the past two years. Total sent in the past two years is around 4.5 lac rupees. All this is documented. My father has a pension of Rupees 13 thousand per month, not enough to maintain a decent life style. My mother does not get any pension.
My questions are:
1. Is 4.5 lacs enough? Is the visa officer likely to be satisfied with this amount?
2. How important is it to disclose all the savings my parents have in India? With so many banks in India is it possible for the home office to find out what all savings they have?

Please reply and let me know what all I need to be careful of?

Thanks
N

[geriatrix]

My father has a pension of Rupees 13 thousand per month

In other words, not wholly dependent on you financially. If this income (from pension) was declared at the time of previous (visit) visa applications then UKBA is already aware of the fact.

Decent lifestyle is a relative term, and AIUI, for older dependent relatives settlement visa the fundamental question is whether the dependents can sustain themselves (financially and otherwise) reasonably without the help and presence of the British citizen or person settled here.

Do they own the house they live in?


regards

[geriatrix]

Lying or not disclosing facts in an aimmigration application is never a good idea.

See also General grounds for refusal.


regards

[avjones]

In the past 2 years, you've sent 450,000 rupees, and your father's pension is 13,000 a month, so 312,000 rupees, is that right?

hard to show that he's wholly or mainly dependant on you, to be honest.

As for not enough to live on, the average income in India is 45,000 rupees per year. So the average Indian income for 2 working people (not retired people) would have been 180,000 rupees over 2 years, a lot less than your father's pension. It's hard to see, therefore, that he could qualify as dependant on you, when his income is so much above the average, excluding the amount you send to the family.