documents to bring mother

[thenewguy]

Hi,

I am a British citizen and my mother is Indian citizen and she is currently in India. She is retired now.

My father expired this month and therefore I will like my mother to visit me on family visa ( Standard Visitor Visa) valid for 10 years.

Could you kindly tell me which documents I need to submit from my side to help the visa process for my mother?

Could you also tell me which documents my mother can take to the Embassy to submit her case?

Many thanks

[CR001]

Has your mother visited the UK before?

What evidence does she have to submit to prove her personal and financial circumstances in home country and her ties to home country?

Applicants don't submit at the embassy, they have to apply through VFS.

[secret.simon]

Understand how long term visit visas work.

The applicant (your mother) needs to show a track record of multiple standard visit visas and that she returned home within the time she mentioned on the application form. There have been a case recently when people who have overstayed what they stated on their application forms (so, for instance, if they said that they were visiting for 6 weeks and stayed 6 months) were refused subsequent visit visas.

Once your mother has a track record of multiple visit visas, she could apply for a two year visit visa. But even then, that merely means that she can enter the UK for multiple times, but for a maximum of six months at a time. She is also expected to spend more time in her home country than in the UK. UK visit visa rules expressly forbid residing in the UK under the guise of a visit visa by frequent and successive visits. If there are such repeat and frequent visits, the long term visa can be cancelled on the spot at the airport and your mother returned to India by the next available flight. Any subsequent visit visa application will almost certainly be rejected.

Remember that you becoming a British citizen does not give your mother a pathway to UK immigration.

Do you have a family? You may want to look at the Surinder Singh route, which will involve you moving yourself and any family you have in the UK to another EEA country, exercise treaty rights there, prove the dependency of your mother on you, get her to join you in that EEA country and then move back to the UK. This route is under EU law and time is running out for it with Brexit.

[thenewguy]

Good Morning,

First of all, thanks for the replies.

My mother has never visited the UK before but because my in laws are Hungarians, my parents visited Hungary few years ago for two weeks.

The documents which we can provide for her visa are, her pension papers, my father's pension which she is receiving now, our house papers ( in India), some savings in the bank, police certificate, my wife's and my pay slips and our accommodation papers, our tax papers and job contracts.

Could you kindly tell me if there is any other thing i can attach with her application?

Many thanks for your help.

[CR001]

Highly unlikely that she will get a 10 year visa. Visiting Hungary has nothing to do with UK immigration.

She will likely only be issued with a 6 month validity visa.

[thenewguy]

Hi CR001

Thanks for the reply. I think too now that it will be wise to apply for 6 months in the beginning.