Administrative Reviews
Administrative Review
You may decide to submit an application for Administrative Review if you believe your application was wrongly decided.
You will be told in your decision letter If you can apply for Administrative Review.
You can only apply for an administrative review if all of the following apply:
- you’re outside the UK / inside the UK
- you applied outside the UK / inside the UK
- you do not have a right of appealagainst the refusal.
- you did not make an application to visit the UK as a Standard Visitor(except if you applied as an S2 Healthcare Visitor)
There’s a different way to ask for an administrative review if you applied:
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Fees:
If your application was refused and you want an administrative review, you must apply within 28 days of receipt of decision if you are outside of the UK.
If your application was refused and you are in the UK, you must apply within 14 days of receipt of the decision.
Fees cost is £80.00.
Currently, it can take 6 months or more to receive the result of the administrative review. If you do not get a decision on your application within 6 months, the Home Office will contact you with an update. Your rights are not affected by the delay in processing applications.
You cannot request a second review (unless the result of the first review found new reasons why you were refused). Your decision letter will tell you if you can apply for a second review.
If your visa was cancelled at the border
You’ll be told in your decision letter if you can ask for the decision to cancel your visa to be reviewed. This is known as an ‘administrative review’.
You can ask for the decision to be reviewed if your visa was cancelled for one or more of the following reasons:
- there has been a change in your circumstances.
- you gave false information.
- you failed to include relevant facts.
You must apply either:
- within 14 days of your visa being cancelled
- within 7 days if you were detained on the date your visa was cancelled
You need to do this from the UK.
If your visa was cancelled at border controls outside the UK
If you want an administrative review, you must apply within 28 days of your visa being cancelled in any of the following cities:
- Paris
- Brussels
- Dunkirk
- Coquelles
- Calais
- Lille
Currently, it can take 12 months or more to receive the result of the administrative review. If you do not get a decision on your application within 6 months, the Home Office will contact you with an update. Your rights are not affected by the delay in processing applications.
You cannot request a second review (unless the first review found new reasons why the cancellation was correct). Your decision letter will tell you if you can apply for a second review.
If you’re in the UK, you will not usually be removed until your review has been completed.
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