Parents in PK - what are my options?

[b1234567]

Good Morning All,

I hope you are well.
I’d appreciate any advice regarding my situation and the possible routes I could explore to get my wife’s parents to the UK from Pakistan.

My wife and I are both British citizens, her parents currently reside in Pakistan. They are elderly, have some mobility issues due to old age but not registered disabled (not sure if that’s even a thing in Pakistan). I understand that an ADR visa is near impossible to be granted for people with genuine issues, let alone those who can just about manage to complete day to day tasks. My question is then, what other avenues could one explore to get the parents over here? As a British citizen, are there other rights that you may have to see your family or bring them here?
Any advice or guidance would be immensely appreciated.

[AmazonianX]

Good Morning All,

I hope you are well.
I’d appreciate any advice regarding my situation and the possible routes I could explore to get my wife’s parents to the UK from Pakistan.

My wife and I are both British citizens, her parents currently reside in Pakistan. They are elderly, have some mobility issues due to old age but not registered disabled (not sure if that’s even a thing in Pakistan). I understand that an ADR visa is near impossible to be granted for people with genuine issues, let alone those who can just about manage to complete day to day tasks. My question is then, what other avenues could one explore to get the parents over here? Besides visit visa, none more or less. As a British citizen, are there other rights that you may have to see your family or bring them here? No, there is no such right conferred on being a BC, more like disadvantage. HO is averred to chain migration?
Any advice or guidance would be immensely appreciated.

[b1234567]

Good Morning All,

I hope you are well.
I’d appreciate any advice regarding my situation and the possible routes I could explore to get my wife’s parents to the UK from Pakistan.

My wife and I are both British citizens, her parents currently reside in Pakistan. They are elderly, have some mobility issues due to old age but not registered disabled (not sure if that’s even a thing in Pakistan). I understand that an ADR visa is near impossible to be granted for people with genuine issues, let alone those who can just about manage to complete day to day tasks. My question is then, what other avenues could one explore to get the parents over here? Besides visit visa, none more or less. As a British citizen, are there other rights that you may have to see your family or bring them here? No, there is no such right conferred on being a BC, more like disadvantage. HO is averred to chain migration?
Any advice or guidance would be immensely appreciated.

Hi Amazonian,

Thank you for your response.

[b1234567]

Hi Everyone,

Looking for some guidance from mods and/or users who have had success with visitor applications from Pakistan.

Context: British citizen looking to call parents over from Pakistan on a visit visa.

To satisfy the HO that the applicants (in this case my parents) will return to their country, there needs to be a significant amount of funds in there account to use as supporting evidence that the applicants can not only afford their stay in the UK, but have enough money to convince the HO that they will and can afford to return and continue their lives back in Pakistan.

There is no set figure on how much this should be, so my question is, what amount of funds have people had success with?

Any advice would be much appreciated

[Frontier Mole]

Funding to return is not really a major point. It is all about their ties with their home country. Do they hold property, are there significant family members in the home country to encourage return, is there an income stream in there home country?

[b1234567]

Funding to return is not really a major point. It is all about their ties with their home country. Do they hold property, are there significant family members in the home country to encourage return, is there an income stream in there home country?

Thanks Frontier for getting back to me.
I note your points, but what I’m dealing with is a poor family stuck in a poor country. My parents depend on me financially with only a small income stream from my retired fathers pension and the property they live in is owned but is nothing fancy. So from the HO perspective, there truly isn’t a lot to go back to. What other options do I have? They’re both getting old and my mother has mobility issues - feel a bit stuck on options tbh.

Edit: just to add, in terms of family there, my two brothers are there, both of whom are uneducated and have fairly low income jobs. The majority of financial support is sent from myself and other siblings here in the UK.

[Casa]

Sadly, the fact that you are supporting your parents financially actually weakens their visitor visa application.

The Case Worker will want to see documented evidence that there are stronger reasons for them to return home, than they would have to remain in the UK.

[Frontier Mole]

Your brothers are a very major reason to return, are they married with kids - if so the grandchildren are a very good reason to return
It is all about reasons to return - don’t focus on income / education of those back home. Look at the reasons to return not the negatives

[b1234567]

Thank you @casa and @frontier for your input.
I will take onboard the advice from both of you and see if there’s anything that can be done or any other routes which can be followed.
They do have grandchildren so yeah I guess that’s one reason to return.

If anyone has any other experiences to share or advice then please feel free to comment.

Thank you.

Happy new year!

[b1234567]

Hi All,

Can someone provide me with a document checklist (or link to one) for a standard visit visa for my parents to visit from Pakistan?

Thank you in advance