When individuals and families receive a refusal on a UK visa application, it is a disheartening experience and process thereafter. Whether you feel there has been an error from your side or if you feel the Home Office has made a mistake in serving the decision, it doesn’t make it easier.
Over the years at ICS Legal, we’ve built experiences of emotions over time and can relate to the difficulties this brings forth. The Home Office is a massive entity and resolving a refusal is not an easy nor a quick task. Therefore, this leads to a process-led correction, whether you have to appeal against a decision or to conduct a legal review, it is the responsibility of the applicant to outline the corrections.
Based on this, we want to provide you with details on dealing with such matters. It is never easy to deal with the decision, however, we need to be proactive and seek how best to resolve the matter.
We need to take into consideration when dealing with any application where mistakes are made and appealing the decision may be the correct legal remedy.
- First, you need to review the decision served and the reasons raised by the UK
Home Office. Thereafter, go through the evidence you had supplied. - Based on this aspect, you can then
decide on whether you should challenge the decision via the remedies the Home Office has made available, or to seek
review through an alternative means.
With appeal submissions or with a legal review of a decision, you have a window to conduct a submission between 14 to 28 days, depending on the application type and whether you applied in the UK or not.
Another key point we are often asked about is timelines. With the Ukraine and Russia war, this has led to significant delays in Home Office & Tribunal matters. On average you are looking at a timeline between 6 to 9 months. In some instances, certain matters can be fast-tracked via an expedited submission. A judge will review your exceptional circumstances and may grant for the matter to be expedited, however no timescales are usually set for that.
We are in the business of people and appreciate the traumas of what a refusal can do with life decisions. The impact of decisions can severely affect the mental state, and we have seen many dealing with these matters with anxiousness.
As always, you can speak to one of our Lawyers to guide you through this process. We offer consultation services to go through a decision served and how best to move forward. It helps you to understand your legal position and the realistic chance of overturning the decision.
There are benefits to challenging a decision, as this enables you to take a matter for it be reviewed by a third party (First Tier Tribunal). This allows an independent overview of the entire matter and whether the Home Office has served a decision in accordance with the published laws.
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