Administrative Review Application Guidance 2024

An administrative review application is a process that allows an applicant to challenge a UK visa refusal on point-based system applications.

You’ll be told in your decision letter if you can ask for the decision on your visa application to be reviewed. This is known as an ‘administrative review’. If you want an administrative review, you must apply within 14 or 28 days of getting the decision depending on if you applied from inside or outside the UK. It costs £80 to apply for administrative review.

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Who can apply for administrative review?

A person who makes an application on or after the relevant date and has received an ‘eligible decision’ may apply for an administrative review.
Eligible decisions are those made on:

• In country Tier 4 applications made on or after 20 October 2014 by either a main applicant or dependant
• in country Tiers 1, 2 or 5 applications made on or after 2 March 2015 by either a main applicant or dependant, including indefinite leave to remain applications under those routes
• in country applications where the decision was made on or after 6 April 2015, unless the applicant applied as a visitor or made a protection or human rights claim
• A skilled worker or their dependent partner/child visa
• Minister of Religion or their dependent partner/child visa
• Sportsperson visa or their dependent partner/child visa
• Representative of an overseas business or their dependent partner/child visa
• Global mobility visa or their dependent partner/child visa
• A person with UK ancestry or their dependent partner/child visa
• A person on a global talent visa or their dependent partner/child visa
• Application for a start-up visa or their dependent partner/child visa
• Application for an innovator visa or their dependent partner/child visa
• A temporary worker visa

Our services for administrative review application

1. Administrative review for tier 2/skilled worker visa refusal
2. Administrative review for Tier 4/Studnet visa refusal
3. Administrative review for returning resident visa refusal

What Is a Case Working Error?

An application for administrative review under the Immigration Rules, Appendix AR can only be considered where it is contended that there has been a case working error of an eligible decision.

Administrative review fee

An applicant who applies for an administrative review of an eligible decision must pay a fee of £80. There is no additional fee for reviewing the decision in relation to any dependants of that person who were legitimately included in the original application.

What does an administrative review do?

It will allow the applicant to raise any permitted case work error (defined in appendix AR of the Immigration Rules) that they think has been made on the application and, if an error has been made, have it corrected.

How to apply for an administrative review?

The applicant should apply online using the form at Ask for a visa administrative review.

Will the person conducting the administrative review be the same person who made the initial decision?

No. The administrative review will be carried out by a different person on an independent team.

What is the time limit for applying for administrative review application in the country?

It is 14 calendar days from the date the applicant receives the decision notice or biometric residence permit (BRP) (7 calendar days if they are detained).

What is the time limit for applying for administrative review application from overseas?

For entry clearance decisions, 28 calendar days from the date the applicant receives the decision notice.

Refunds and length of time for a refund to be given. The fee is only refunded if the:

• application for administrative review is rejected as invalid
• decision on the review is to grant leave, this includes cases where the outcome of an administrative review is that the original grant of leave was issued for the wrong period, or subject to the wrong conditions The fee will not be refunded if the outcome of the administrative review is that the original decision is upheld. The fee should normally be refunded within 3 weeks of the date of decision.

Can applicants apply for administrative review and make a new application for entry clearance, leave to enter or leave to remain at the same time?

No. If an applicant makes an administrative review application and then makes a new application for entry clearance, leave to enter or leave to remain, the administrative review application will be treated as withdrawn. If an applicant makes a new application for entry clearance, leave to enter or leave to remain and then makes an administrative review application in respect of a previous decision, the administrative review application will be rejected.

What happens if the administrative review is unsuccessful?

The applicant must leave the UK after they receive the administrative review decision if they do not have immigration leave.

How will the applicant know they have a right to apply for an administrative review?

If the Home Office has refused an application, the decision notice will tell the applicant if they can apply for administrative review. If the applicant thinks the Home Office has granted the wrong period or conditions of immigration leave they can apply for an administrative review.

Who has the right to apply for an administrative review at the border?

An applicant who has received an ‘eligible decision’ may apply for an administrative review. For applicants at the UK border, eligible decisions are decisions made on or after 6 April 2015 to cancel leave to enter or remain which was in force with the result that the applicant has no leave to enter or remain, due to:

• change of circumstances
• false representations
• failure to disclose material facts

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