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Family Visas

Straightforward applications for partners, children and relatives joining family in the UK.

For families where one person is in the UK and another needs permission to join them, extend their stay or settle.

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Family visas let a partner, child or relative join someone who is British, Irish, settled or otherwise eligible to sponsor them in the UK. Most of these routes sit in a part of the Immigration Rules called Appendix FM, with related rules for children and dependent relatives.

The correct route depends on who is in the UK, their status, your relationship, where you are applying from and whether you meet the financial, accommodation and English-language requirements.

What we check

We check the sponsor's status, the relationship, previous marriages, income or adequate maintenance, accommodation, English language, immigration history and, where children are involved, their care arrangements.

Straightforward family applications only

We assist with family applications that meet the Immigration Rules and fall within our Level 1 authorisation. Cases relying on human-rights or exceptional-circumstances arguments, the ten-year family or private-life routes, adverse immigration history or other discretionary issues need an adviser authorised at a higher level, and we will refer or signpost you.

How WLIS can help

  1. 1 We check that the route suits your plans and that the matter is a straightforward one within our IAA Level 1 authorisation.
  2. 2 We review your eligibility and your documents, and explain plainly anything that needs attention.
  3. 3 We give you a document checklist written for your circumstances rather than a generic one.
  4. 4 We prepare the application form and supporting documents, and you check and approve the final information before anything is submitted.
  5. 5 We help with submission, biometrics or identity steps, and your eVisa and UKVI account after the decision.

What we can and cannot help with

We provide advice and application assistance for straightforward immigration matters within our IAA Level 1 Immigration authorisation. Where a matter falls outside that authorisation — for example because it involves adverse immigration history, a discretionary or human-rights claim, an administrative review, an appeal or tribunal work — we will tell you and signpost or refer you to an adviser authorised at the appropriate level.

If an application is refused, we will explain the decision and whether any further work remains within our Level 1 authorisation. Where an administrative review, an appeal or other higher-level casework is needed, we will signpost or refer you to an appropriately authorised adviser. We do not provide appeal or tribunal representation.

UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) makes the final decision on every application. No immigration adviser can guarantee that an application will be approved.

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Questions clients often ask

Which family route applies to my situation?

It depends on the relationship and on the sponsor's status in the UK. Partners of British, Irish or settled people normally apply under Appendix FM; the family members of a worker or student apply as dependants on that route instead; and EU Settlement Scheme families follow their own rules. The routes carry different requirements, so the choice is worth getting right at the start.

How is the income requirement assessed for a partner application?

The minimum income requirement for most new partner applications is currently £29,000 a year, but the figure is not the whole answer. Where a first successful partner application was made before 11 April 2024, the earlier financial requirement can continue to apply to later stages, and where the sponsor receives certain disability or carer's benefits an adequate-maintenance test applies instead. We check which of these positions you fall into before looking at the evidence.

Can the whole family apply at the same time?

Often yes, and applying together usually makes the evidence easier to present because the household is assessed as a whole. Children may need separate consideration where the other parent is not travelling, and each applicant pays their own fee and Immigration Health Surcharge where it applies.

Official sources we check

We check what we publish against the Home Office's own guidance. These are the GOV.UK pages behind the advice on this site — use them to confirm anything you read here, because the rules change and the official page is always the current one.

GOV.UK content is published by the UK government and is not part of this website.

Talk to us about family visas

Tell us what you want to apply for, the status you hold now and when your current permission ends. We will confirm whether the matter is within our Level 1 authorisation and offer a suitable appointment.

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