Cooling off period for Standard Visitor Visa

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration,

My parents have a 10 years standard visitor visa which is valid until 2032. They have stayed in the UK for 180 days and will be returning back to their home country soon.

Could you please elaborate if there are any time restrictions for them to come back to the UK again, after staying here for 180 continuous days i.e. can they come back at any time and stay for another 180 days or there is any cooling off period before they can again visit UK and stay for another 180 days? There is no restriction or cooling off period stated on the visa other than the fact that tarah should not be more than 180 days per visit.

Yours faithfully,

Rajesh Patel

Dear Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration,

Could you please look into the query asked earlier?

Appreciate a timely reply.

Yours faithfully,

Rajesh Patel

Chief Inspector of Borders & Immigration, Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration

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[1]ICI_logo 2012 [150dpi mid res]Dear Rajesh Patel,

 

Thank you for writing to the [2]Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and
Immigration. Your query should be directed to the Home Office.

 

The post was created as part of the [3]UK Borders Act 2007 and is
independent of the Home Office. The Act requires the Chief Inspector to
monitor and report on the efficiency and effectiveness of customs, border
and immigration functions carried out by Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary
of State for the Home Department (Home Secretary) and his/her officials. 
You are receiving this standard reply as your enquiry is requesting
comment or advice on a specific issue or individual case which the Chief
Inspector is not in a position to do, as per section 48 (4) of the act:

 

‘The Chief Inspector shall not aim to investigate individual cases
(although this subsection does not prevent the Chief Inspector from
considering or drawing conclusions about an individual case for the
purpose of, or in the context of, considering a general issue).'

 

The correspondence you have sent may be retained on file for use as
described above, if you do not wish that to happen please respond to this
email.

 

Information that may assist you further:

 

Individual cases (including visa applications)

 

• Maintain correspondence with any existing contacts within UKVI, Border
Force or the section of the Home Office you are dealing with.
[4]Contact details for the Home Office.  

Reporting immigration or customs abuse.

 

• UK immigration or customs abuse should be reported directly to the
Home Office. Details on how to do this are on the following pages of
the Home Office website:

• [5]Reporting immigration offences
• [6]Reporting customs offences

 

Coronavirus Immigration Helpline

Telephone 0800 678 1767, free of charge (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)
or
Email: [7][email address]

Due to Data Protection Regulations queries need to be made by the visa
holder or applicant. If you are a third party (for example family member
or sponsor) and wish to speak on their behalf, the Home Office must have
the visa holder’s permission. This can be provided by verbal consent to
the [8]coronavirus immigration helpline or written consent via email. The
email to verify consent must be sent from the email address provided on
the visa holder’s application to [9][email address] to enable the
Home Office to provide a response. Without consent the Home Office is
unable to discuss person-specific details with a third party.

Complaints

 

• Please direct your complaint to the [10]Home Office complaints
department
• The [11]Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman - The PHSO was set
up by Parliament to provide an independent [12]complaint handling
service for complaints that have not been resolved by UK government
departments. The PHSO is the final stage for unresolved complaints and
usually expect you to complain to the department first. This is so the
department has the chance to look into your concerns and, where
needed, put things right. By law the PHSO can only look at complaints
about UK government departments and other UK public organisations if a
Member of Parliament (MP) refers the complaint to them.

 

Mental Health and wellbeing

 

If you are distressed or feel as though you would benefit from mental
health assistance, please consider the advice on the [13]NHS Mental Health
webpage.

 

Home Office data or statistics

 

• The Home Office website carries extensive corporate information on
their ‘[14]publications’ or ‘[15]announcements’ pages. It also has a
specific ‘[16]Statistics at the Home Office’ page.

 

Freedom of information requests

·       Freedom of information requests regarding information or data about the
Home Office should be sent [17]directly to the department. 

Customs

 

• [18]HMRC seized items webpage.
• Webpage regarding [19]appealing when your goods have been seized.

 

Job Vacancies

 

• The Chief Inspector advertises all vacancies on the [20]Civil Service
Jobs website. Vacancies at other inspectorates and government
departments are also advertised here.

Other useful links:

• [21]UK Visas and Immigration
• [22]Border Force
• [23]Home Office
• [24]The Justice Inspectorates

 

Yours sincerely on behalf of David Neal

Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration            

 

 

 

 

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