Originally Posted by mike_steve
Hi Mike, welcome here to the forum
What questions do you have about the UK Tourist Visa?
The financial risks involved in application for this Visit Visa are very low.
However care needs to be taken to avoid making too many applications following refusals.
Please do be aware that securing a visit visa is oftentimes down to the discretion of the ECO and just how they view the probability that the applicant will return to their home country before the issued visa expires.
The applicant will need to provide strong evidence of this such as a job, a house, a family, a bank account. Social and family ties of their life that binds them to their country of residence.
The UKBA page specifically for the General Visitor is here
It's well worth taking a look and checking out all of the links provided.
To come to the UK as a general visitor, you must be able to show that:-
- you are 18 or over
- you intend to visit the UK for no more than 6 months
- you intend to leave the UK at the end of your visit
- you have enough money to support and accommodate yourself without working or help from public funds, or you and any dependants will be supported and accommodated by relatives or friends
- you can meet the cost of the return or onward journey
- you are not in transit to a country outside the 'Common Travel Area' (Ireland, the UK, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands).
- you do not intend to take paid or unpaid employment, produce goods or provide services, including the selling of goods or services directly to members of the public
- you do not intend to do a course of study
- you do not intend to marry or register a civil partnership, or give notice of marriage or civil partnership
- you do not intend to carry out the activities of a business visitor, a sports visitor or an entertainer visitor
- you do not intend to receive private medical treatment
There are quite a good number of threads on this forum relating to the application of visit visa. A quick search should reveal them
Good luck.
