Successful Sponsor Licence Application
Efficient and helpful. Amer and his Team are quick to respond to queries, even over the weekends and at night. Sponsor Licence granted after only 4 weeks. Thanks.
Daniel Johnson
UK Family Visa Law Firm
We have award-winning and experienced family visa UK lawyers available to help you with applying for this in-demand visa. Join your family member in the UK with the advice, assistance and guidance of our immigration specialists.
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Place your faith in Cranbrook Legal’s family visa UK solicitors when you are interested in accompanying your relatives in the UK. This broad category of visa is the one for which you will need to apply if you intend to live with a UK-based family member for over six months.
Different requirements apply, depending on whether you are seeking this visa as a partner, spouse, parent, child, an adult coming to be cared for by a relative, or on the basis of your private life.
Our immigration experts in central London have more than 25 years’ experience. They also have an excellent track record of helping relatives of someone already based in the UK to secure the relevant family visa enabling them to move to the country. For further information, please call 0208 215 0053.
The process of seeking to obtain a family visa or family visitor visa for the UK can be confusing and overwhelming. It might be less than clear which visa category is the appropriate one for you, when you are simply wishing to accompany a relative of yours in the UK.
Our skilled and experienced family visa UK lawyers in central London help make the whole process easier. We will advise and guide you in relation to the exact family visa you should be seeking, as well as the Home Office requirements you will need to fulfil, and what to include in your family visa application for the UK.
Choosing family visa UK solicitors who have a high acceptance rate for their clients applying for this visa will help ensure your application is also a success.
Whether you are applying for an Adult Dependent Relative (ADR) visa, a spouse visa, a parent of a British child visa, or any of the other popular UK family visa routes, you can ensure your application has been prepared thoughtfully and thoroughly with the help of our experts in immigration law.
We charge a fixed fee for our service – pre-agreed at the start of our relationship – to give our clients vital financial certainty, before project managing their cases from start to finish. To find out more, please call 0208 215 0053 today.
The term ‘UK family visa’ refers to a broadly defined visa route for a wide range of people who may wish to come to the UK to live with a family member for more than six months.
If you are not yet in the UK, you have the right to apply for a family visa for the UK to live with your:
If you only intend to visit the UK for up to six months, you may require a family visitor visa for the UK; you can check via the GOV.UK website whether this will be the case for you, or contact our immigration lawyers for further advice and guidance.
There are other pages of our website providing further details on the Spouse visa, Fiancé visa, and Civil Partner visa.
Those submitting a family visa application for the UK to care for their children are applying for what is also sometimes called the ‘parent of a British child’ visa. Meanwhile, adults who wish to move to the UK to be cared for by a relative can apply for what is often referred to as the ‘Adult Dependent Relative’, or ADR, visa.
Finally, you can also apply for a family visa for the UK on the basis of your private life. However, this route is only open to those who are already living in the UK, and is subject to other requirements.
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Successful Sponsor Licence Application
Efficient and helpful. Amer and his Team are quick to respond to queries, even over the weekends and at night. Sponsor Licence granted after only 4 weeks. Thanks.
Daniel Johnson
Care Home Sponsor Licence Application!
We used Cranbrook Legal for the processing of a Sponsor Licence Application. We are a Health Care provider and have faced huge difficulties in recruiting for our Care Homes. Amer and his team were quick to identify the documents needed for our specific case and they were able to prepare a really strong application. I have no doubt that the really good Cover Letter convinced the Home Office to approve our Application. Thanks again, superb work!
Sophie Barton
ILR Application
Thanks to Amer and team for all help given to me my indefinite visa and British citizenship : so many solicitor tell me that British Nationality is impossible for me but Amer looked at my file and took care and fight with Home Office and in the end they give up and give me British Nationality .thank you for Amer and Cranbrook team
Hossan Ali
The exact UK family visa requirements that apply to you will depend on whether you are submitting an application through this visa route as a spouse, partner, parent, child, an adult coming to be cared for by a relative, or on the basis of your private life.
If, for instance, you are interested in applying for a UK family visa as a parent so that you can come to the UK to care for your child, you must first check whether you are eligible to apply for a partner. If this is indeed the case, you must apply for the partner visa rather than for the parent visa.
In the event that you are not eligible for the partner visa, and would therefore like to apply as a parent, your child must either:
Your child will be considered to be living an independent life if, for instance, they have left home, got married and had children.
In order for you to be eligible for the ‘parent of a British child’ visa, your child must also be living in the UK. In addition, one of the following must be true:
If your child has settled status, you may have the option of applying to the UK Government’s free EU Settlement Scheme, or for an EU Settlement Scheme family permit. For the latest information and advice on your options, please make an enquiry to our family visa UK lawyers.
Candidates for the UK family visa as a parent also need to have sole or shared parental responsibility for their child. If you share responsibility, the child’s other parent must not be your partner. In addition, the other parent is required to either:
In the event of your child living with their other parent or carer, you will be required to have access to the child in person, as agreed with the other parent or carer or by a court order.
As aforementioned, the Adult Dependent Relative, or ADR, route is another option for those wishing to submit a family visa application for the UK.
If you are indeed an adult applying for a UK family visa so that you can come to the UK to be cared for by a relative, you are required to be outside the UK when you apply. You must also require long-term care from a parent, grandchild, brother, sister, son or daughter who is living in the UK permanently.
One of the following must also be true about the relative of the person applying for the ADR visa:
Applicants for the ADR visa are also expected to prove all of the below:
For a more detailed discussion about the specific UK family visa requirements that will apply to you as a candidate for any of these routes, and to find out more about how we can help, please arrange a consultation with our immigration specialists.
As an applicant for any of the aforementioned UK family visa routes, you will be expected to supply certain information and evidence to strengthen your case for the visa. Information will need to be provided for you and any dependants applying at the same time.
The Home Office will expect you to provide:
Those applying for a family visa from outside the UK must also have a blank page in their passport on which to put the visa.
In order to apply for a family visa for the UK, you will also be expected to:
Depending on your circumstances, it may be necessary for you to supply further documents for your family visa application for the UK, such as a sponsorship form from your UK-based family member.
Applicants for the UK family visa who have a partner will be asked about their partner’s name, birthdate, nationality, passport, and right to be in the UK – such as whether they are a British citizen. They will also need to provide further information about their partner, including – but not limited to – in relation to any people their partner was previously married to, and evidence of marriages ending.
In applying for a family visa for the UK, you will also be required to provide details about your children, and those of your partner, if they have any children. You will need to supply information about all of your children, even if they aren’t lodging a family visa application for the UK.
The information you will be expected to provide about your children will include:
Contact our family visa UK solicitors for further advice and information with regard to the documents you might be expected to provide in your visa application. You can call us on 0208 215 0053.
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What Our Customers Say About Us
Excellent service from Cranbrook Legal! They were incredibly patient, thorough, and detailed with my endorsement application. Their support and guidance throughout the entire process were invaluable.
Paing Phyo Thiha
Very good experience, despite never even meeting or seeing the lawyers (phone/zoom/email). They were very meticulous in checking all our documents were complete, and my VISA
Auri
The British spousal visa process is a horrendous ordeal full of incomplete and misleading information, traps and pitfalls designed to make only the smartest (or richest)
Tom Dennehy
Excellent experience with Cranbrook and Bilal - acquired our visa sponsorship license and then sponsored a candidate with their assistance. Whole process was very smooth and
Ben Anderson
Was super impressed with Cranbrook Legal. They were efficient and friendly, and most importantly really explained the process properly and simply. We secured our sponsor licence
Annabel Fox
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