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by secret.simon » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:44 pm
You were searching in the wrong forum. The forum that you should have searched in and posted this query in is the "General UK Immigration forum", where queries regarding visit visas tend to go. This forum is more for people who wish their partners/parents/other family members to move permanently to the UK.
Also, you may have misunderstood my post. The more often your parents come to the UK, the more likely it would be construed by the ECO that they are settling in the UK in the guise of a visit visa and the harder it will be for them to be issued a visit visa in the future.
Visit visas are meant to be comparatively rare. If you apply for them often, you may find that they get denied when you really want your parents to visit, such as for the birth of a grandchild if your child were to be born in the UK. The ECO will not just look at the legitimacy of the reason, but also the track record of the visits and if it appears that your parents are settling in the UK, irrespective of the legitimacy of the reason, the visa will be refused.
Remember that for visit visas, there is no right of appeal.