Hi
I am an Indian national employed in UK on a 5 year work permit. I have started working in UK in 0ctober 2004.
Both my parents are above 65 years of age and I am the only child they have. They don’t have any close relatives to take care of them. My father is a retired Principal of an Engineering College in India and receives a pension equivalent to £ 125 per month. I want that they continue to remain as a part of the family unit so that I am able to take care of them.
I had applied to the British High Commission in India (after consulting a Visa application processing agent in India)requesting them to issue a visa valid for 5 years in work permit holder dependent category to my parents and had also submitted a Letter of Sponsorship assuring that I will bear all the cost pertaining to their travel and stay in UK. However, their visa has been refused after an interview in Delhi, India giving the following reasons
1) Your Son, the work permit holder is not an intra company transferee who has been posed to UK by his employer.
2) You are not genuinely dependent upon the work permit holder as a retired principal from the Government Engineering Collage you receive pension and have about 3-4 lac (equivalent to £ 4000 )Rupees as personal savings .
My parents were given the right to appeal and they had presented the facts that we were misguided by the visa processing agent to apply for Visa in the Work Permit holder dependent category on 14-10-04 (within 28 days) and had requested for granting a Visitor Visa.The snippet of the appeal is as follows:
"We had applied for visa in the Work Permit holder dependent category and our application was refused. In this respect we would like to state that we were misguided by one of the Visa Application processing agent to apply for visa as dependents of work permit holder, our son, Jagdeep Singh Ahluwalia. Our intentions were to get a multiple entry visitor visa so as to enable us to visit our only child employed in the UK. We were advised by the Visa processing agent to apply in the work permit holder dependent category as the only possible way of getting a Multiple Entry Visa for a longer duration and this would also save us the trouble of coming from Jabalpur every time we apply for a visitor visa since we do not have relatives in Delhi. Moreover, since I am retired person, my pension amount is not really sufficient to meet our expenses and is mainly supplemented through regular funds transfer from our son’s income we had the understanding that we are dependent on our son. However, we have now gone through the rules of immigration and apologise for our mistake to have applied for the visa as dependents of work permit holder. We have also understood the rules and the possibility of obtaining Multiple Entry Visa in the Visitor category also. In view of this I would request to reconsider our case and grant a Multiple Entry Visitor Visa valid for at least one year to myself and my wife. I hope you would consider our case sympathetically and grant a visitor visa to us."
Till date there has been no Response for the appeal.
Please Advice me as what should the next step be
1) Can they get a visa in the Work Permit Dependent category. If yes, should they apply again for the visa for 5 years as Dependents before they hear any decision on the appeal? Will some more supporting documents such as bank statements showing transfer of funds to their account from UK to prove there financial dependency on me, would make the case stronger.
2) Should my Parents apply for a Visitor visa again in India before the hear any decision on the appeal? Can they apply for visitor Visa of 5 years? Is there a way to get their visit extended beyond 6 months in UK on a visitor visa?
3) Please advice me apart from getting a visitor visa for my parents what options do I have? How can I keep my parents in UK for more than six months?
I would be extremely thankful if you could evaluate my case and advise me on how to proceed from here. I wish to bring my parents here as soon as possible and for a duration of more than 6 months.
Thanks and Regards
Jagdeep
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