{"id":3393,"date":"2021-03-05T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/home-office-u-turn-offers-hope-on-visa-fees"},"modified":"2021-03-05T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:40:00","slug":"home-office-u-turn-offers-hope-on-visa-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/home-office-u-turn-offers-hope-on-visa-fees","title":{"rendered":"Home Office U-turn offers hope on visa\u00a0fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a successful challenge in the Upper Tribunal by JCWI and others, the Home Office has agreed to change its policy\u00a0on who is eligible for a fee waiver when applying for entry clearance.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nPeople applying for\u00a0a visa to enter the UK\u00a0on human rights grounds \u2013 for example,\u00a0to live\u00a0in the UK\u00a0with\u00a0their\u00a0family members\u00a0\u2013\u00a0have to\u00a0pay around \u00a33000 to\u00a0submit an application.\u00a0Those\u00a0who are already in the UK can apply for something called a fee waiver, so that they can apply\u00a0for the visa\u00a0without paying the fee.\u00a0A landmark case last year\u00a0means that people who are already in the UK can apply for a fee waiver if they cannot afford the fee \u2013 before this, you would have to prove that you were destitute\u00a0or that there were exceptional circumstances in your case.\u00a0<br \/>\nHowever, up until now\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0been almost impossible for people who are\u00a0outside the &#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a successful challenge in the Upper Tribunal by JCWI and others, the Home Office has agreed to change its policy\u00a0on who is eligible for a fee waiver when applying for entry clearance.\u00a0\u00a0 People applying for\u00a0a visa to enter the UK\u00a0on human rights grounds \u2013 for example,\u00a0to live\u00a0in the UK\u00a0with\u00a0their\u00a0family members\u00a0\u2013\u00a0have to\u00a0pay around \u00a33000 to\u00a0submit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}