{"id":4056,"date":"2022-12-15T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/what-to-do-if-you-cant-afford-to-apply-for-your-first-visa"},"modified":"2022-12-15T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:21:00","slug":"what-to-do-if-you-cant-afford-to-apply-for-your-first-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/what-to-do-if-you-cant-afford-to-apply-for-your-first-visa","title":{"rendered":"What to do if you can&#039;t afford to apply for your first visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home Office application fees are extremely expensive. If you are applying for a visa to come to the UK to join a partner or family member, you will usually have to pay at least \u00a31538, plus extra costs like the Immigration Health Surcharge. People applying for a visa usually end up paying over \u00a33000 just to make an application.<br \/>\nThis is a huge amount of money to have to save in order to apply to live with your loved ones, and for many people means that their family remains out of reach.<br \/>\nFor people who cannot afford the application fee, there is something called a fee waiver. If you can prove that you cannot afford the application fee, the Home Office will let you apply without paying the application fee.<br \/>\nThe Home Office recently changed its rules to for people applying for their first visa to come to the UK to join a partner or family member, to get a fee waiver. This was after JCWI challenged the Home Office in court, and its previous policy was found to be unlawful.<br \/>\nApp&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Office application fees are extremely expensive. If you are applying for a visa to come to the UK to join a partner or family member, you will usually have to pay at least \u00a31538, plus extra costs like the Immigration Health Surcharge. People applying for a visa usually end up paying over \u00a33000 just&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\/4056"}],"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=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}