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Dependant Visa UK
Our immigration lawyers can help dependants of a student, a worker, or a businessperson to apply for a dependant visa UK come to the UK.
Dependant Visas UK (Apply As A Dependant Of A Student, Worker or Businessperson)
Partners and children of student visa, work visa, and business visa holders can apply for a dependant visa to come to the UK to live with their family members.
Our specialist team of immigration lawyers for dependant visas UK provides high quality immigration advice and services for all types of dependant visa applications on a fixed fee from outside and inside the UK.
Who can apply for a dependant visa?
You can apply for a Dependant visa UK if you are a dependant of a person on a UK work, study, business visa, or ancestry visa. A ‘dependant’ refers to a partner/spouse or child of the main visa holder.
Partners must either be married or in a civil partnership with the main visa holder, or they must have been living together for 2 or more years.
To apply for a child dependant visa, children must be under 18 years, or if 16 years or older, they must be dependant on the main visa holder. Being dependent means that they:
- are not living an independent life (i.e., not married, in a civil partnership, or have children)
- live with the main visa holder (unless they attend boarding school or university)
- are financially supported by the main visa holder
Family members (dependants) of work visa holders
As experienced dependant visa lawyers, our team can help you make the following dependant visa applications from inside and outside the UK:
- Skilled worker dependant visa
- Health and care worker dependant visa
- Scale-Up worker dependant visa
- UK Ancestry dependant visa
- Global Talent dependant visa
- Dependants of High Potential Individual (HPI)
- BNO Adult dependant relative visa
- UK Expansion worker dependant visa
- Graduate dependant visa
- Dependant of innovator founder visa
Dependants of Students
Is your husband or wife studying a post graduate level 7 course in the UK? Our student dependant visa lawyers can help you to join your family members in the UK.
- Parent of a child student visa UK
- Extension of student visa
- Entry clearance of student dependant visa
- Switching into student dependant visa
Dependant Visa UK documents checklist
To qualify for Dependant visa UK, you will be asked to provide a number of documents to support your Dependant visa UK visa application. The exact list of documents you will need to provide will depend on the type of visa held by the main applicant and your relationship with them. Some of the documents or information you may need to provide include (please note this list of documents is not exhaustive):
- The online completed application form and documents checklist showing GWF number
- Your passport and ID Card
- Proof of relationship to the main visa holder
- Proof of dependency
- Bank statement to meet the financial requirement for at least the last 28 days.
It is important to ensure you submit all the mandatory documents required by UKVI, because failing to do so may result in your application being delayed or refused.
What is the processing time for the Dependant visa UK?
From outside the UK, a Dependant visa UK could take 12 weeks to be processed, from the date of your visa appointment.
For an additional fee the application can be submitted using the priority service, which would normally expedite the decision to within 5 working days.
From inside the UK, the current service standard is 8 weeks, from the appointment date.
There are priority and super priority services available for an additional cost. The priority service expedites the decision to 5 working days and the super priority expedites the decision to 24 hours.
