The term ‘PBS’ stands for the UK’s Points-based system of immigration. Immigrants in the UK who are on a visa route that falls under this system can bring their dependants along.

If the dependents satisfy all applicable requirements for the Dependent Visa, they must submit an online application. The applicant seeking entrance clearance as a dependent would proceed to the visa Facilitation Service Center to present the necessary documentation after submitting the online application. The applicant would be required to present his biometric data at the VFS Center (i.e. fingerprint and digital photograph).

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Family members of immigrants who are in the UK on a points-based visa, such as a UK Skilled Worker visa, may do so as dependents.

The following qualify as a “dependent”:

• Wife, husband, or companion
• Child under 18
• Child over 18 (if they are a dependent who is currently present in the UK)

When taking dependents along, the applicant (dependent) will need to provide the documents required for dependent visa UK.

• Details of any previous immigration applications you’ve made
• Details of any criminal convictions
• Your national insurance number, if you have one
• Your parents’ date of birth and nationality if you’re applying from outside the UK

You will also need to provide documentation that proves:

• DetailsYou have a genuine and subsisting relationship with the main applicant
• You and/or your partner can meet the financial requirements (Statements from your own bank or building society for the 90 days immediately preceding the application)
• Current passport
• Police clearance certificate: You’ll need to provide a criminal record certificate if you’re applying from outside the UK and you work in: education, for example teachers, education advisers and school inspectors, childminders, teaching assistants.
• TB Test certificate: You’ll need to have a tuberculosis (TB) test if you’re coming to the UK for more than 6 months and either:
  • you live in any of these listed countries
  • you have lived in any of these listed countries in the past 6 months

You’ll be given a chest x-ray to test for TB. If the result of the x-ray is not clear, you may also be asked to give a sputum sample (phlegm coughed up from your lungs).
If your test indicates that you do not have TB, you’ll be given a certificate which is valid for 6 months from the date of your x-ray. Include this certificate with your UK visa application.

You must first show that you are related to a PBS primary applicant or visa holder (i.e., your “sponsor”) in one of the following ways:

• In a marriage that has been recognised by the law and in which both parties are at least 18 years old, spouse
• Unmarried partner who has lived with the PBS visa holder for at least two years,
• Or are a child who, at the time of the first visa application, was unmarried and younger than 18 years old.

You or your partner must prove that you have enough money to support yourself for the entirety of your stay in the UK because you will not have access to public funds like benefits unless the main applicant or visa holder is a Tier 1 (Investor), Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent), or Global Talent immigrant.

The amount to meet the maintenance funds requirements depends on the type of visa your partner has or is seeking for.

Application processing times for PBS-dependent applications submitted from outside the UK might range from 3 months to 4 months, depending on the country you’re applying from.

It can take up to 8 weeks under the standard service to switch to a PBS dependent visa from within the UK; up to 10 days under the paid-for priority service; or the same day you apply under the premium option with a cost.

Applications for ILR from PBS dependents may take up to six months to process.

If you are applying for a PBS dependant visa, which costs £610, you must do so online from your home country unless you are doing so to extend a visa that you already have while you are in the UK. You must include your biometric data, which can be received from a centre for visa applications.

Online visa extensions or changes to existing visas will cost each applicant £704. The cost per individual to use a premium service centre would be £1,314. For a cost of £19.20, selected post offices will provide your biometric data.

You are urged to verify the most recent prices as fees are subject to change.

Where they meet the requirements, Tier 2 dependant spouses and partners may apply for UK indefinite leave to remain.

First, one of the following must apply to your sponsored spouse, civil partner, or unmarried or same-sex partner:

• A UK resident who has either obtained indefinite leave to remain as a Relevant Points-based System Migrant, is applying for indefinite leave to remain concurrently with you,
• Or who has naturalised as a British citizen after having previously held indefinite leave to remain as a Relevant Points-Based System Migrant.

Furthermore, you and your sponsor must have resided in the UK together for at least five years before completing your application.

If you and your sponsor continue to fulfil the requirements of the first visa, you should be able to extend your PBS dependent visa.

You will need to resubmit your biometric information and present your sponsorship certificate. For paying for medical care while you are in the UK, you must pay the health surcharge.

You can once more be asked to show proof of your connection to the PBS migrant. You will be required to present documentation of your employment, income, and place of residence. This could be done by providing bank statements, and so forth utility bills, pay stubs, PAYE statements of payments made on both partner’s names.

Yes. A PBS dependent visa UK can be refused on grounds ranging from missing documentation – to – undisclosed and complex immigration history.
When you receive a refusal notice, you have 3 options:

1. Re-apply with the help of an expert
2. Apply for an Administrative Review
3. Judicial Review

Re-apply – You can hire an expert to assess your application and ensure you didn’t miss out on any requirements. If there are any drawbacks in your application, you can re-apply with legal assistance.

Administrative Review – This is useful to if a “eligible decision” is incorrect because of a case working error and, if it is, to remedy that error.
Judicial Review – This option is for when an application has been refused by the Home Office and has not been granted a right to appeal against the refusal of the application. You can apply for a Judicial Review within 90 days of your refusal notice.