Visitor Visa vignette transfer required for New Indian Passport?

Hello All,

Hope you are well

My mother got 5 years UK visitor Visa (currently 3 more years remaining). However, her Indian passport tis now expired - does she need to transfer the vignette into her new passport?

If yes, please advise the procedure.

If no, please could you point me to official page confirms it, so I can give a copy of the print out to my mother during her net travel, so that no confusion in the airport in India.

Please advise

kalven wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 13, 2024 10:09 am

Hello All,

Hope you are well

My mother got 5 years UK visitor Visa (currently 3 more years remaining). However, her Indian passport tis now expired - does she need to transfer the vignette into her new passport?

If yes, please advise the procedure.

If no, please could you point me to official page confirms it, so I can give a copy of the print out to my mother during her net travel, so that no confusion in the airport in India.

Please advise

Not sure if there's an official page. She needs to obtain a new passport. Travel with both old passport (with visa) and new passport. She can use an elastic band to hold them together.
New passport in front and old passport under. Use the elastic band to hold the last page of the new passport and the front page of the old passport. Special technique learnt.

She'll have no problem at all.

Hello,

Thank you for the feedback. that is the ideal scenario and I hope it works. The reason I asked for an official Page is that - I got stopped in India (to UK) once for not having vignette in new passport in 2011, and then had to go through lot of discussions before I was allowed, it ended up the officer was not sure about this way. My mother travels alone mostly, so if she had a paper it would be ideal.

However, thank you for your response again.

kalven wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:34 am

Hello,

Thank you for the feedback. that is the ideal scenario and I hope it works. The reason I asked for an official Page is that - I got stopped in India (to UK) once for not having vignette in new passport in 2011, and then had to go through lot of discussions before I was allowed, it ended up the officer was not sure about this way. My mother travels alone mostly, so if she had a paper it would be ideal.

However, thank you for your response again.

To be honest that always going to be a thing. Not every immigration officer around the world knows how things are done everywhere.
My friend (non-EU) pre-brexit travelled to Spain with his spouse having a UK spouse visa and a Schengen visa. When he went to get his exit stamp on passport, the Spanish immigration officer was saying that he should have just had a EU fam and he wouldn't need a visa to enter the EU.
He had to educate him that because his spouse was British and he lives in the UK. He needs a British spouse visa and not EU Fam. EU laws becomes irrelevant in home country.
Guess we learn everyday.

Just tell your mum to say that her "visa" is valid, and that's all that counts. She would be let into the UK. Also the airlines knows the rules.