Home Office Fee Waiver Application
What is a Fee Waiver Application?
The Home Office visa fee and Immigration Health Surcharge (NHS surcharge) are already high and not everyone is able to afford the fees to enable to apply for a visa in the UK. You can apply for a fee waiver application if you cannot afford to pay the fees. The Home Office will take into account your financial circumstances in order to decide whether you may be exempt from the Home Office fees, the HIS or both fees or in the part.
What are the eligibility requirements for fee waiver?
- You are a partner, parent or dependant child of someone who has a family visa or has permission to stay in the UK on the basis of their private life
- You obtained ‘Discretionary Leave’ or ‘Leave outside the Immigration Rules’ on human rights grounds where you were refused refugee status or humanitarian protection
- You have permission to stay in the UK because you’re a victim of modern slavery or human trafficking.
You can also apply for a fee waiver if you cannot afford to pay the fee because you:
- Do not have a place to live in the UK and you cannot afford one
- Have a place to live but cannot afford essential living costs like food or heating
- Have a very low income and paying the fee would harm your child’s wellbeing
Can I include my any Dependants?
You can include your partner and children in your visa waiver application form if they’re applying to join or stay with you in the UK as your dependants.
Each family member will need to complete a separate visa application and pay the visa fee. Use this fee waiver request service if you cannot afford to pay all or some of the fees.
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Will I still be eligible if I am not the 5 year or 10 year route?
- FLR (M) route under five years and partner route under ten years.
- Private and family route (FLR)
- Applications for authorization to stay under the parent route for five and ten years.
- Requests for flexible leaves.
- Those who already have discretionary leave may extend it further.
- Victims of slavery or human trafficking.
- Domestic violence victims who are granted leave to remain or spousal entrance clearance.
What happens when the request for a fee waiver is approved?
If your request for a fee waiver is approved, you will have 10 working days to submit your request for an absence leave to use the fee waiver code. The code for the fee waiver will expire after ten working days.
The Home Office may grant a full fee waiver towards your visa application fees and/or towards the Immigration Health Surcharge. If you are granted a partial fee waiver you will need to pay the rest towards the fees in order to submit your application to the Home Office.
How can you submit a fee waiver application form online?
What happens if I have applied and my visa is due to expire?
How can we help?
You can contact us to discuss your application for a Fee Waiver on 0203 7324736 or email us on: [email protected]