If you are a British citizen or have the right to live in the UK permanently, you can apply for your partner to come and live with you. They have to be either your husband, wife, civil partner, proposed civil partner or fiancé(e) or partner who you’ve lived with for at least 2 years; this includes same sex partners.

There are two different types of visas that each of these types of applicants can apply for under this route – the 5-year visa and the 10-year visa.

To apply for either of these visas, the applicant must show that they are in a genuine relationship with their partner. The partner of the applicant must also meet the financial requirement; most often this means that they must be earning over £18,600 a year or have savings of over £62,500. The applicant and their partner must also live in reasonable accommodation without the need for public funds.

If the applicant is applying with children, the minimum that the partner needs to be earning will increase by £3,800 for the first child and £2,400 for every subsequent child. The applicant may apply to avoid the financial requirement if their spouse is receiving any form of disability, attendance or carers allowance. If they do not meet the requirements for the 5-year visa then the applicant can apply under the 10 year visa route. They also need to meet the minimum standards for English language competence.

In the case of both the 5-year and the 10-year visa, once the visa has run its course, the applicant is then eligible to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK.

Temple Gate Solicitors are specialised in Family applications and can help you to apply for this visa. To book a consultation with one of our legal experts contact us on 020 7183 8043 or send us a message by clicking here.

Any applicant who is a spouse, civil partner or unmarried partner of another migrant, British citizen or Permanent Resident who cannot meet the criteria for the 5-year route to Indefinite Leave to Remain, can apply for this 10-year route. This may be because they have not met the financial requirement, English language requirement or other criteria from their particular route to entry.

Should the applicant be acting in the role of parent of a child in the UK (under the age of 18), who is a British citizen or who has Indefinite Leave to Remain, then the applicant could reasonably claim grounds to apply to stay under this category of visa. If the child is a British citizen, it is assumed that they cannot reasonably be asked to leave and it should be established that there are insurmountable circumstances that would make it impossible for family life to be maintained if the applicant were removed from the UK.

Should an applicant’s circumstances change and they find that they are able to meet the criteria for the 5-year route to Indefinite Leave to Remain, then they can they apply to be considered under this route instead. Alternatively, as this visa can be granted in 30-month blocks, an applicant can apply to renew this as long as no major and or adverse changes have taken place since the time of the last application.

Temple Gate Solicitors are specialised in Family applications and can help you to apply for this visa. To book a consultation with one of our legal experts contact us on 020 7183 8043 or send us a message by clicking here.

This category is for those applicants who wish to travel to the UK in order to marry their fiancé(e). This visa also gives the applicant an option to apply for leave to remain in the UK with the spouse after they have been married. This visa gives you a 5-year route to settlement.

The applicant must show that they have the intent to marry within the following 6 months and will only be granted a visa for that time, though an extension can be made if a divorce is presently going through or in cases where a reasonable allowance can be made.

The applicant and their partner must be over 18 years of age and have proof that they have met previously. If they have not met previously, if after the initial rejection for application they can prove a meeting then the case can be reviewed again. Dependent children can also apply alongside an applicant under this visa.

Temple Gate Solicitors are specialised in Family applications and can help you to apply for this visa. To book a consultation with one of our legal experts contact us on 020 7183 8043 or send us a message by clicking here.

The Crown Prosecution Service defines domestic violence as – “any incident of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of their gender or sexuality.”

This visa allows those who are residing in the UK under an existing visa to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain. There are exceptions to this if they are the spouse, unmarried partner, civil partner or same sex partner of an individual who has limited leave to enter the UK. The applicant must also be living in the UK at the time of the application. They can also apply under this category if they themselves are a finance (e) or proposed civil partner.

Temple Gate Solicitors are specialised in Family applications and can help you to apply for this visa. To book a consultation with one of our legal experts contact us on 020 7183 8043 or send us a message by clicking here.

Applicants who apply under this visa must have been in the UK living on a short-term visa as a spouse, unmarried partner, civil partner or same sex partner of a person who was present and settled in the UK at the time that they died. The applicant needs to prove that, at the time of their partner’s death, they were planning to carry on living with them in a genuine relationship in the UK.

There are exceptions to this if they are the spouse, unmarried partner, civil partner or the same sex partner of an individual who has limited leave to enter the UK.

Temple Gate Solicitors are specialised in Family applications and can help you to apply for this visa. To book a consultation with one of our legal experts contact us on 020 7183 8043 or send us a message by clicking here.

This category is for British nationals or settled people to bring their loved ones to the UK who are not able to care for themselves and are entirely dependent on their British/settled sponsor.

In order to apply for this visa, the application must be made from outside the UK as this visa cannot be switched into once the applicant is in the UK. The applicant must require long-term personal care; this could be because of their age or due to physical or mental disability.

The applicant must prove that even with the help of the sponsor they would be unable to find support in their country of residence. The Entry Clearance Officer will confirm whether the applicant has close family or an adequate carer in their present location. The sponsor must complete a sponsor form which confirms that they are willing and able to undertake looking after the applicant for the next 5 years.

The applicant may apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain if they are able to complete 5 years of continuous residence in the UK. The applicant must also not be subject to a deportation order or certain types of criminal convictions or have been convicted of repeat offences.

Temple Gate Solicitors are specialised in Family applications and can help you to apply for this visa. To book a consultation with one of our legal experts contact us on 020 7183 8043 or send us a message by clicking here.

Under this visa, the applicant can choose whether to go for the 5-year route to settlement or the 10-year route. In either case, this route is aimed at parents with responsibility for or who have access to their child following the end of their relationship with the child’s other partner. However, an applicant can still apply for this route if they have sole responsibility for the child. Where the applicant does not live with their child, the applicant must show that the child’s other parent or carer will grant them access to the child. This is also the case if they are the main parent the child lives with. They must also prove that they wish to take an active role in looking after their child.

The 10-year route to settlement is applicable where the applicant cannot meet the financial or English language requirement for the 5-year route. In the case of the 5-year route, they must prove that they will not require access to public funds and that the place where they intend to raise their child meets basic health and safety standards.

Temple Gate Solicitors are specialised in Family applications and can help you to apply for this visa. To book a consultation with one of our legal experts contact us on 020 7183 8043 or send us a message by clicking here.

To apply under this category, the child must have at least one parent who is a British citizen or someone who is in the process of settling here. To apply, the child must be under 18 years of age and must prove the family connection to their parent. They cannot be married or in a civil partnership or have already left home and be leading their own life.

The sponsor of the child will also need to prove that they will be adequately able to look after and financially support the child – in most cases, they will need to be able to show that they are earning over £22,400. They will also need to show that they can provide them with an adequate and reasonable accommodation that meets with current safety standards. The applicant must also not have any unspent criminal convictions.

In the case of adopted children, many of the criteria are the same, though the applicant needs to show that they have not been adopted with the sole intent of making their application to the UK easier. Their adopted parents did not have to be living in the UK at the time of the adoption. The child needs to be seeking to stay with their adopted parents and not to have left or broken with their adopted family.

Temple Gate Solicitors are specialised in Family applications and can help you to apply for this visa. To book a consultation with one of our legal experts contact us on 020 7183 8043 or send us a message by clicking here.