UK Family Visas
Plan your family’s next step.
Clear guidance for your family visa application, with a checklist and evidence review built around your circumstances.
Fixed Professional Fee £500 / applicationPer person. Government and third-party charges are separate.
Every family’s circumstances are different. We help you understand the route relevant to your plans and prepare evidence of the relationship, finances and other requirements. You have a clear checklist and personal support through the agreed application service.
Family visa application support from immigration advisers in Barking, east London. We identify the relevant family route, prepare a case-specific evidence checklist and help you review the application before submission.
Who this service is for
- A child joining a parent based in the UK
- Parents of a child who is settled in the UK
- Adult dependent relatives who require long-term care
- Family members of British citizens or persons settled in the UK
Basic eligibility
This is a general guide only. A professional case review is needed to assess your circumstances; a free next-step call explains how to begin.
- A family relationship with someone in the UK that the Rules recognise
- The family member you are joining in the UK holds the required status
- The financial and accommodation requirements for the route are met
- Where care or dependency applies, the requirements for it are met
Documents typically required
- Birth certificates and documentary evidence of the family relationship
- Current passports and immigration documents
- Evidence of finances and accommodation
- Evidence of care needs, for adult dependent relatives
Clear fees for each person
The standard professional fee is £500 per application, per person. Two standard individual applications cost £1,000 (2 × £500); three cost £1,500 (3 × £500). Each application has its own written scope, quote and engagement. Government and third-party charges are separate.
Paying for another adult’s application does not grant access to their private case. Any child application needs the appropriate parental or guardian authority, verified through professional review.
Review our professional fees →Before your first discussion: Write down who is applying, their relationship to the UK family member, where everyone currently lives and the UK family member’s immigration status. Tell us about care needs or parental responsibility issues at the outset.
How the process works
An initial case review to identify the family route that fits your circumstances; we confirm the agreed service scope before professional work begins
A document checklist prepared around your circumstances
Preparation of your application and the representations that support it
Your review and sign-off before anything is submitted
Support with submission, and regular updates on progress
Which route fits your family
The rules ask something different depending on who is applying.
- A child joining a parent. You must show the parental relationship, and either that you have sole responsibility for your child or that there are serious and compelling reasons why they should come. You must also show the family can be supported and housed.
- A parent of a child in the UK. You must show you have access to your child, or responsibility for them, rather than simply wishing to accompany them.
- An adult dependent relative. You must show your relative needs long-term personal care because of age, illness or disability, and that this care is not available or not affordable where they live.
These are genuinely different tests. Evidence that would win one of them can be beside the point in another. A professional review can help establish which route and evidence requirements apply before you gather documents. A free next-step call explains our service; an optional £45 consultation allows more time for a focused discussion. You can also run your circumstances through our free eligibility checker first, at no cost and without giving us anything.
Where family applications really go wrong
Family applications depend on the form of the evidence as well as the family relationship itself. We help you assemble clear financial, relationship, accommodation and supporting evidence before submission, so the caseworker can understand the circumstances from the file.
The adult dependent relative route: an honest word
This route is narrow on purpose, and you deserve to know that before you spend money on it.
It is not enough to show that your mother or father would be better off living with you, or that you would rather care for them yourself than pay someone else to. You have to show that the care they need cannot be obtained where they are, including care that could be paid for with help from you.
We will not take your fee to file an application we can already see failing. If your relative's circumstances do not meet that test, we will tell you at the consultation, explain exactly what the test requires, and tell you what would have to change. That conversation costs you nothing.
If your relative's situation does meet the test, the case has to be built around medical and care evidence from the very beginning, not assembled afterwards from whatever documents happen to exist. That is a different piece of work, and it is the one worth paying for.
What it costs
Our standard professional fee is £500 per application, per person. If a different fee or scope is appropriate, we agree it with you in writing before you proceed. Government and other third-party charges are separate.
On top of our fee you will pay the Home Office application fee, the health surcharge where it applies, and any cost of translating civil documents or obtaining medical reports. Those are third-party costs. They are not ours, they change from time to time, and we give you the current figures in writing rather than a guess. You can model the whole thing yourself with our cost calculator before you speak to anyone.
What happens when you contact us
Begin an application directly, or book a free 10-minute next-step call to ask about our service. During the agreed professional review, we consider your family circumstances and explain the relevant route, evidence, known costs and next steps. A detailed 45-minute consultation is also available for £45.
If we can help, we prepare the application, you approve every word before anything is submitted, and we stay with it until the decision arrives. If we cannot help, or the route is not realistic for you yet, we will say so.
We are regulated by the Immigration Advice Authority. Please check us on the public register before you instruct anyone. Giving immigration advice in the UK without authorisation is a criminal offence, and an adviser outside that register offers you no way of recovering your money. That test applies to us as much as to anybody else.
We only provide services within our authorised scope and do not make promises about outcomes.
Choose your next step
Joining your spouse or unmarried partner? Our spouse and partner visa page covers that service. For existing permission, see visa extension support.
Our preliminary eligibility checker can help you organise your questions; it does not replace an adviser’s assessment. Read our professional fees and use the visa cost calculator for an estimate of separate government charges. When you are ready, start your application and save your details securely for review.
Prepare your next conversation
Explore family visa guidance, organise your questions and understand the separate charges before deciding how to proceed. A guide or tool result does not establish eligibility.
Frequently asked questions
Usually yes, if you are British, settled, or hold a qualifying status, and you can show the parental relationship along with either sole responsibility or serious and compelling reasons. What you need to prove changes depending on where the other parent is, so tell us that early in the conversation.
It means you are the one directing your child's upbringing, including decisions about school, health and welfare, rather than simply the one sending money. It is proved with records built up over years: school correspondence, medical decisions, travel, transfers and messages. A single signed statement will not carry it.
There is a route for adult dependent relatives, but it is deliberately narrow. You must show your parent needs long-term personal care and that suitable care is genuinely unavailable or unaffordable where they live. We will give you an honest view of your prospects before you spend anything on it.
It depends on the route. Some family applications require your UK sponsor to meet a set financial threshold. Others apply a different test, of whether the family can be adequately supported. The figures are set by the government and change, so we confirm which test applies to you and what the current numbers are at your consultation.
Birth or marriage certificates, with certified translations where they are not in English, passports and immigration histories, and evidence that the relationship has continued over time: money sent, calls and messages, visits, and decisions taken together.
No. That is the partner route, which has its own requirements around the relationship, income and English language. See our spouse and partner visa page.
Several of them do, though the qualifying period differs by route and by the applicant's age and circumstances. We set out the expected path to Indefinite Leave to Remain at the start, so you are not surprised by it years later.
No, and it is a common situation. What matters is that you present the evidence that does exist clearly, and explain the gaps yourself, rather than leaving a caseworker to draw their own conclusion about why something is missing.
Begin your family visa application
Start your application securely, or book a free 10-minute next-step call to ask about our service first.