mum in law on visit visa too ill to travel

[siri_uk]

Hi guys,

My mother in law has been over from India for the 2nd time on a family visit visa. She has been here now 4 and a half months, she has been feeling unwell as she is diabetic and has heart problems. We took her to the doctors who has now said that due to blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis problems he feels she is too unwell to travel back to India, in his opinion, indefinitely. This leaves me with a major problem, she only has 1 and a half months left on her visa, she wants to go back to India but her health prevents her now. What can we do? Can we apply for her to stay in the UK?

[Wanderer]

I think the doc is over egging the pudding, I have a heart problem but I was flying weekly until recently, along with a guy with sleep apnoea.

You can apply for an Elderly Dependant visa which costs an arm and a leg (1600 pounds I think) and others will correct, that 99% have been rejected so far, meaning no more visit visa if that happens.

[Amber]

See also, Human rights claims on medical grounds (click) Strong medical evidence from the NHS clinician should significantly support any claim.

[Ayyubi72]

Tens of thousands of people Heart problems, diabetes, arthritis travel on aeroplanes every single day and these include many thousands of Indians. If you think you can gain a visa just by drumming up medical problems, then you are living in a cuckooland.

Unless someone is on a life support machine or a daily dialysis or something of that sort, medical grounds won't cut with UKBA.

Additionallly, there is every kind of the bestest of medical treatments are available in India, so Indian citizens cannot cite that as an excuse either.

[Amber]

I would leave the medical diagnosis to a clinician.

[zzhys]

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