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by Casa » Mon Oct 24, 2016 1:20 pm
Also you should be made aware that the route to settlement for adult dependent relatives has been virtually closed since July 2012.
Unless your mother required daily care for basic tasks such as bathing, dressing, preparing food etc and that care is either not available in her home country or is unaffordable, then any application to settle would be refused.
If your mother applies for a settlement visa and it is refused, she would effectively be closing the door to any visitor visa applications in the future due to her prior intention to settle.
Neither can she enter the UK on a visitor visa and then decide to stay on.
(Casa, not CR001)
Please don't send me PMs asking for immigration advice on posts that are on the open forum. If I haven't responded there, it's because I don't have the answer. I'm a moderator, not a legal professional.