How to Bring Your Parents to the UK

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Have permanent status or citizenship.. Ensure your parents need long-term care.. Save enough money to support your parents for 5 years.

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Have permanent status or citizenship.

Step 1

Have permanent status or citizenship.

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Ensure your parents need long-term care.

Step 2

Ensure your parents need long-term care.

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Save enough money to support your parents for 5 years.

Step 3

Save enough money to support your parents for 5 years.

4

Help your parents gather the basic documents.

Step 4

Help your parents gather the basic documents.

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Provide proof of your relationship with a birth certificate.

Step 5

Provide proof of your relationship with a birth certificate.

6

Request a health certification from your parents' doctor or health professional.

Step 6

Request a health certification from your parents' doctor or health professional.

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Fill in the application online with biographical information.

Step 7

Fill in the application online with biographical information.

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Add more details to your application in the Appendix form.

Step 8

Add more details to your application in the Appendix form.

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Send in the required documents by mail.

Step 9

Send in the required documents by mail.

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Pay the visa application fee.

Step 10

Pay the visa application fee.

11

File an appeal if your parents are denied entrance.

Step 11

File an appeal if your parents are denied entrance.

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Contact an immigration lawyer if you need one.

Step 12

Contact an immigration lawyer if you need one.

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