A visitor visa for a parent is rarely refused on the form. It is refused on the evidence behind it: what ties them to home, where the money came from, and whether your side of it was ever properly shown. We prepare the whole application, including yours.
Home Office published policy, not our terms. Do not book flights until the decision arrives — the Home Office will not cover the cost if it takes longer.
There is no appeal against a visitor visa refusal in all but a narrow set of cases. You reapply, and the second application has to answer the first refusal. That is why the first one matters.
The whole decision turns on whether your parents will leave at the end of the visit. Retired, with the children abroad, there is often less on paper tying them home than the caseworker expects to see.
We do: set out the ties properly: property, income, dependants, commitments and previous travel.
A balance that appeared a fortnight before the application reads as borrowed for the application. Caseworkers look at how the money got there, not only what the closing figure is.
We do: show months of history, and explain any large credit before anyone has to ask.
If you are paying, you are part of the application. Saying so is not enough: your income, your housing and your relationship all have to be shown.
We do: prepare your side of it too — the letter, the payslips, the tenancy or title, the proof of relationship.
An old refusal, an overstay, a different name on an old passport. Left out, it is found anyway and the application becomes a credibility problem rather than a paperwork one.
We do: put it in the open and answer it directly, which is the only thing that works.
Most of the work is on this side of the world. If you are inviting them and paying for the trip, the caseworker is assessing you as much as them.
You send us what you both already have. We tell you what is missing, write the letters, put the evidence in the order a caseworker reads it, and check the whole file before it is submitted.
You cannot apply earlier than three months before they travel, so the preparation has to be done before that window opens, not inside it.
Bank history, ties, letters and your side of it. This is the part that takes weeks, and it can start today.
The earliest the online application can be made, and it must be made from outside the UK.
Counted from the appointment where they give fingerprints and a photograph, not from the day you apply.
Not before. If a decision takes longer than expected, the Home Office will not cover travel you have already paid for.
No hourly billing, and no work begun before you have agreed a number in writing.
Twenty minutes. We go through the trip, the circumstances and anything in the history that matters, and tell you honestly how straightforward it looks.
One figure for the whole job, agreed before anything begins. It does not move because the application turned out to take longer than we thought.
We write the sponsor letter, prepare both sides of the evidence, complete the online application, book the appointment and check the whole file before anything is submitted.
Our fee is separate from the official fee. The visa fee itself is set by the authority deciding the application and is paid to them, not to us. We will tell you what it is at the first call, and we do not add anything to it.
There is no appeal. There is only a better application, and the one you make first.
OneHub LegalWe will tell you if we think it will not succeed. Some applications are weak for reasons no amount of paperwork fixes, and a refusal sits on the record for the next one. If yours is one of them we will say so on the first call, before you have paid us anything.
If yours is not here, ask. A straight answer costs you nothing.
No, and nobody honestly can. The decision belongs to the Home Office. What we control is that the evidence in front of the caseworker is complete, consistent and answers the questions they are required to ask.
You can do the work from here, and we would expect to deal mostly with you. The application itself has to be made from outside the UK, and your parents have to attend the appointment in their own country.
There is no fixed figure. What matters is that the cost of the trip is covered and that the money is credibly theirs or credibly yours. A balance that appeared recently with no history behind it is worse than a smaller one that has been there for months.
Yes, and it is common. But then you are part of the application: your income, your accommodation and your relationship to them all have to be evidenced. We prepare your side of it as part of the fee.
No, but it has to be answered rather than left out. A visitor refusal carries no right of appeal in all but a narrow set of cases, so the route is a fresh application that deals directly with the reason given. Bring the refusal notice to the first call.
Up to six months in a single visit. A long-term visit visa of two, five or ten years is possible for people who come regularly, but it is still six months per visit — it is not a way to live here.
A fixed fee for the whole job, agreed in writing before anything starts. The Home Office application fee is separate and is paid to them; we do not add anything to it. We will give you both figures at the first call.
No. Not until the decision is in hand. If an application takes longer than the usual three weeks, the Home Office will not cover travel you have already paid for.
Where they are applying from, roughly when you would like them here, and anything in the history that worries you. We will come back within one working day with what it involves and a fixed fee.
