Retired Father - Family Visitor Visa - Please answer

[rachsach]

Hi,
I am in a process of inviting my parents in the UK on a family visit visa. My father is a retired bank officer who doesn’t receive monthly pension but he did receive a lump sum amount of Provident Fund at the time of retirement in the year 2001.

In his savings account he currently have money in excess of Rs 3,00,000 and in another bank account he hold up to Rs £6,00,000 so in total of over Rs 9,00,000. He also have Fixed Deposits, LIC’s , shares, land registry etc and also gets a regular rental income of about Rs 10,000 per month.

My question is that the rental income of Rs 10,000 is okay as his monthly income for the purpose of obtaining the visa? If yes, then he can produce a tenancy agreement but can’t provide anything else in terms of validating Rs 10,000 – I mean he receive this money in cash.

Please can someone answer my queries and I will really appreciate your assistance.

Thanks
Romila

[rachsach]

pls can someone reply - vinny, batlykhan, sushdmehta - please help with mg query. thanks

[krazydude]

Retired, no pension,cash rental income - these three do not make the case easy for an immigration officer to decide on giving your father a visit visa. The big cash deposits could go either way as its very easy to transfer those to the UK if he decides on not returning back home (not saying that is his intention).

You need to show family relations in India and property he owns and then explain that he has these reasons for him to return back.

Cash rental income will not help as there is no paper evidence of it being received. Had it been received in a bank, then that would have been different. You can declare it on his application form, but it would not help his case.

[rachsach]

1) In order to prove his credibility that he will return back to his home country - he can provide property documents (land registry), Fixed Deposit and Life Insurance Policies. Pls let me know if these documents are enough for him to show that he has no intention to remain in the UK.

2) As for the rent that he is receiving, he has tenancy agreement, which he can produce along with rental slips - is that not enough to suffice that he is getting some form of rental income from the property he own?

3) He also receive some form of interest from the Life Insurance policies that he has maintained over the course of years - this interest is not much and this automatically gets credited to his bank account - can he also include this peice of information?

Please reply as my parents reside in a small town and I do not want them to visit VFS if these documents are no acceptable. Please help

[rachsach]

I am only looking for you guys opinion so please help me in getting my parents to visit here.

Thanks
Romila

[rachsach]

please can someone help.

[batleykhan]

The most important part of a visitors visa is proving they are coming here for a genuine reason,they will not resort to public funds and most importantly they will return back to their country.

You need to show good reasons and incentives for them to return. i am afraid simply showing a tenancy agreement for teh rental income he received is not really sufficient.

He needs to show family ties, title deeds of land/property, state pension etc. I think your problem is going to show how he has managed to obtain 3 lakh Rs, £6000 etc if he is only receipt of rental income. If he can show reasons and proof then that's fine.Unfortunately a common mistake in Ind/Pak is that the applicant deposits large amount of cash just before application without being able to prove where it came from. That is one of the most common reasons for refusal.

In teh sponsorship letter you need to give a good explanation of what you have stated in your post.Provide evidence with it, and I don't think you will have a problem. Obviously give good reasons why and who he wants to visit in UK .Provide as much evidence as you can to back up what you say and he should get visa