Visit visa for the ma in law!

Many will know the background but long before I was around in the family my MIL went to the USA to help her sisters children with their children that was in 1994 on a visit visa.
With all the goings on in the States with immigration green cards etc she got missed and overstayed by about 26 years.
This year she decided at the age of 83 she wanted to go back to the Philippines and enroute she wants to see the UK.
Yours truly (me) got tasked with sorting her visit visas out and low and behold she got a successful result today!
She will be here in time for Christmas,much to all our delight.

Well done mate.

Wow! Overstayed for 26 years? The Grandchildren has fully grown!

And great grandchildren

lol

Mother in law arriving at Heathrow today 12.12.2021 on a visit visa at 83 years young

How long a stay does the visa allow..6 months ?

6 months

Congrats
P.s.... Any intentions of keeping the ma in law here permanant? If thats possible?

No intention whatsoever

very rarely happens. How does the applicant prove they have no-one back home to look after them ?

No family class immigration category like in Canada?

i havent looked at it for a while--but from memory parents of settlers can only be considered if they can prove they are dependant on the son / daughter for their care--and there is no-one back home who can do it. I think the total number of successful applicants for the previous year was barely in double figures ( from all over the world.

• you need long-term care to do everyday personal and household tasks because of illness, disability or your age
• the care you need is not available or affordable in the country you live in
• the person you’ll be joining in the UK will be able to support, accommodate and care for you without claiming public funds for at least 5 years
• you’re 18 or over

How long you can

UKBA blog figures happy reading.
It sort of dispels amongst other things the rubbish comments that visit visas are hard to get when in 2019 success rate was87%

https://ukvisa.blog/2018/11/23/uk-visa-success-rate/

I think that is possible if they apply and say she has no one to take care of her back in the Philippines at her age, I think it should be easy to process.

I know a friend, she claimed no one will look after her mother although she has siblings back home but her siblings are poor and cannot afford to take care of their mother whilst working. They brief her Mum saying she is the only child who has to take care of her mother, and so they applied for her mother to stay with them here and get a residence visa! Seems like they don’t really investigate about it, they trust and take their words they put in writing.

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