secret.simon wrote:While a visit visa is issued for 6 months, I would suggest that it is best that your mother does not stay here for 6 months at a time.
Visit visas are meant for short visits; 2 weeks to a month a couple of times a year.
Regular visits to the UK and staying the full six months look like de facto residence (which is forbidden on a visit visa) and not visits and may make future visit visas difficult to get.
Search on these forums for people who have had that issue.
And I think there may well be underlying reasons to avoid that - 180 days or so is when you could become tax resident (which isn't the same as domiciled or ordinarily resident) - so the way HMRC is going, they might want a chunk of the visitors earnings for that year.
Bit far-fetched, but look on the ILR forums, HMRC getting very keen on squeezing people by the balls until they bleed....
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