Elderly Dependent Relative

This type of immigration application covers the following persons:

• PARENTS
• GRANDPARENTS
• OTHER DEPENDENT RELATIVE (not spouse, unmarried partner, or child).

With this type of immigration application the Home Office may consider granting the applicant "Indefinite Leave to Remain." Our consultants will be able to further explain this process.

The applicant should meet the following criterion in order to apply for this status:

• If the applicant is seeking to enter the UK in this capacity, then they must hold the correct Entry Clearance in order to do so.
• That they are joining or accompanying a person who is present and settled in the UK, or who is on the same occasion being admitted for settlement.
• That they are wholly financially, or mainly dependant upon the relative who is present and settled in the UK.
• That they can, and will be maintained and accommodated adequately with their dependants without recourse to public funds in accommodation owned or occupied exclusively by the sponsor.
• That they have no other close relatives in their own country to whom they could turn to for financial support.
• That they are related to a person who is present and settled in the UK in one of the following ways:

• Mother or grandmother who is a widow of 65 years or over; or,
• Father or grandfather who is a widower of 65 years or over; or,
• Parent or grandparents travelling together when at least one is 65 years or over; or,
• Parent or grandparent of 65 years or over who has remarried, or engaged in a civil partnership but cannot rely upon spouse or children of second marriage or civil partnership for financial support. Also, where the party settled in the UK is able and willing to maintain the parent or grandparent and spouse or child of the second marriage or civil partnership who would be admissible as a dependant; or,
• A parent or grandparent under 65 years, if living alone outside the UK is considered in the most exceptional and compassionate of circumstances, and as such is mainly dependant financially upon relatives settled in the UK; or,
• Son, daughter, sister, brother, uncle or aunt over the age of 18 if living alone outside the UK in the most exceptional & compassionate of circumstances, and as such is mainly dependant financially upon relatives settled in the UK.

For further advice with regard to achieving Indefinite Leave to Remain ("Full Residency") for a family dependant, please contact our immigration consultants who will be most happy to assist.

Our consultants are trained to provide UK immigration advice under the authority of the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC). Lawyers and Solicitors are regulated by The Law Society.