You may wish to enter the UK with a visitor visa for various reasons.
As a standard visitor to the UK, you may apply for a visit visa in order to:
Whatever the reason, the two main issues are:
If you are able to satisfy the UK immigration authorities that you meet these two simple criteria, and there are no adverse issues in your background, then you might be successful in obtaining a visit visa to the UK.
Please call and speak to us if you have questions about a visitor visa.
You may wish to have your wedding in the UK as a destination wedding, whether or not you have any residential ties to the UK. That is possible and you may be able to obtain a visit visa for you to enter the UK, get married at your dream location, and return to your home country. That is certainly possible.
Alternatively, you and your British Citizen/ILR partner wish to have your wedding in the UK, rather than in your home country, and then remain in the UK after the wedding in order to live here. In such a situation, this may be possible with a Fiance(e) visa, however, the requirements are slightly different as this visa is a hybrid between a visit and a settlement, and we highly recommend you contact us to arrange a confidential consultation.
If you wish to visit the UK because you have to do a specific piece of paid work as a professional expert then you can do so under this visa category.
In order to successful obtain this visa, you will need to satisfy the UK Immigration that you are:
The engagement must be relevant to your expertise, qualifications and main job in your home country.
You can come to the UK for up to 6 months, but you must do the engagement in the first month.
You can be invited:
You may wish to go to the UK, not to visit or remain there, but to get to a different country via the UK. This is a transit visa.
There are two separate sub-categories so you need to be clear which one you need to apply for. They different based on whether you are remaining within the UK airport, or leaving the UK Airport. They are:
If you are changing your flights at the same airport (e.g., your arriving flight is at London Heathrow and your second departing flight is also from London Heathrow), and, therefore, you will not be going through UK Border control, then you need Direct Airside Transit Visa (DATV) and it remains valid for up to 24 hours.
If you have to go outside the Airport (e.g., your arriving flight is at London Heathrow and your second departing flight is from London Gatwick), you need a Visitor in Transit visa if you’ll go through the Border control but leaving the UK within 48 hours for your main destination.
