Bring my niece as my career from Pakistan

[imi99999]

Hi all,
My Aunty is 75 years old, British national, lives on her own in London(own home)and quite financially strong. She suffers from physical health condition and had mobility issues. She wants to bring her niece from Pakistan as her full time carer. She has enough finances to support herself and the niece.
Please can someone advise me on how can she do that.
She has asked her GP, who also told her that she needs full time carer, plus GP is writing her a supporting lettet

[CR001]

There is no visa for the circumstance you state. Your aunt cannot sponsor a carer.

A health and care visa has very specific requirements and doesn't mean she would get to work for your aunt.

https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa

If she is financial strong, she can likely afford to pay for the care by uk providers.

[JB007]

I doubt that GPs get involved in trying to bring older, adult family members to the UK.

Perhaps the GP letter was intended as support for an Attendance Allowance welfare benefit claim? Which if your aunt gets, means that somebody can then claim Carers Allowance for looking after her(if that carer is allowed to take Public Funds AND meets the other requirerments for Carer's Allowance). Or your elderly aunt can use the welfare benefit money (as well as money from her own pensions and investments) to pay carers, which many seem to prefer to do as that gives them more say on who they have.

However as many elderly get mobilty problems, Attendance Allowance is not for mobilty issues because it is expected that we get some mobilty issues.

https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance

https://www.gov.uk/carers-allowance/eligibility

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-funds


Your sister/cousin, will need to find her own visa to the UK

[JB007]

Or your elderly aunt can use the welfare benefit money (as well as money from her own pensions and investments) to pay carers, which many seem to prefer to do as that gives them more say on who they have.

I should have added that they pay their carers by the hour. And those carers must have been granted the right to work in the UK.

[vinny]

Unfortunately, Explanatory memorandum to the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 1019

76. While home carers are included in the same occupation code, these changes are not designed to enable home carers to be sponsored as Skilled Workers, unless they are working for an organisation which is able to meet the sponsorship requirements. Private households or individuals (other than sole traders sponsoring someone to work for their business) cannot sponsor Skilled Workers