Settlement visas for dependent relatives

Foreignersinuk – It is not a new visa category, as other international media have said, but it nonetheless might come to you as a surprise: the British government will allow you to enter the UK and even settle there if you prove you are financially dependent on the income of your relative settled there. Even the more so if they have become British citizens in the meantime.

Let’s run through the UKBA rules.

You can apply for a settlement visa as a dependent relative if you are related to a person present and settled in the United Kingdom in one of the following ways:

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