A slightly different question. Grandmother's visit visa - can it be extended?

My ex wife successfully applied, with the help, through me, of the experts here, for a six months visit visa for her sixtysomething mother. This will expire in early June and Lola now says that she would like to stay longer.

Is it possible to extend a six months visit visa? Or must she go home and start again?

(to be honest, she is better off here, because her other children cannot take advantage of her gentle nature)

You can extend if initially it was for say 3 months however if she has utilised 6 months visit visa then she will probably have to go back. It aint cheap to extend either.

https://www.gov.uk/standard-visitor-visa/extend-your-visa

Thanks. I will pass on the bad news.

She might as well just apply to live here as a frail elderly dependent, next time.

Stick around and see what others say.

Well you know the lady and if she is eligible then why not.

This web page seems to be the most up-to-date and as you can see, the pre-requisites are almost impossible to meet. There are very similar requirements applied in the Schengen Zone as we discovered recently - we want Mae's 70-something year old recently widowed mother to join us

Thank you, Mark.

I agree - the requirements are, in practice, impossible to meet. Lola is separated from her husband - has been for years - and lives in R's house in Orani, Bataan. R is her eldest child, there are two other sisters , one is a career teacher and lives about thirty miles away and the other makes Kate Aldridge in "The Archers" seem sensible, then there are four sons who are Filipino males, so nuff said*, but the bakla one is quite sensible and caring and in fact does look after his mother...

(* I do in fact have three very good friends who are male, middle clas,s professional Filipinos; however, careful checking reveals the odd fact that all three of them are Tsinoys...)