1) If you're in the UK
You’ll be told in your application refusal letter if you can ask for the decision on your visa application to be reviewed. This is known as an ‘administrative review’.
You can ask for your application to be reviewed if one of the following apply:
- your application was refused
· your application was granted but you’re unhappy with the amount or conditions of your leave
This is known as an ‘administrative review’.
You may be able to appeal if you’re not eligible for an administrative review.
Apply for administrative review
If your application was refused, you must apply for an administrative review within 14 days of getting the decision. Your refusal letter will tell you how to apply. It costs £80.
You must apply within 7 days if you’ve been detained.
If your application was granted but you’re unhappy with the amount or conditions of your leave, you must email the Home Office within 14 days of getting your biometric residence permit.
Get a decision
The decision will be checked for the errors you point out. Don’t send new information or documents for review unless you’ve been asked to.
You’ll usually receive the result of the administrative review within 28 days. You can’t request a second review (unless the result included new reasons why you were refused).
If your visa’s expired, you won’t usually be removed from the UK until your review has been completed.
Withdraw your request
Your request for an administrative review will be withdrawn (cancelled) if you:
- make any other immigration or visa application
- ask for your passport back so you can travel
- leave the UK
Your request will be rejected if you ask for a review of a previous decision after submitting a new application.
You can also email the Home Office and ask for your request to be withdrawn.
If you're outside the UK
You’ll be told in your application refusal letter if you can ask for the decision on your visa application to be reviewed. This is known as an ‘administrative review’.
You can only ask for an administrative review if all of the following apply:
- you’re outside the UK
- you applied outside the UK
- your application was refused on or after 6 April 2015
- you don’t have a right of appeal against the refusal
- you didn’t make an application as a visitor or a short term student
How to apply
You must apply for an administrative review within 28 days of getting the decision.
You must:
· fill in the administrative review application form sent with your application refusal letter - enter the reasons for refusal that are on your refusal letter, and say why you think a mistake was made
· post the completed form to the address on the application refusal letter or take it to the address in person
The decision will be checked for the errors you point out. Don’t send new information or documents for review unless you’ve been asked to.
You’ll usually receive the result of the administrative review within 28 days.
You can’t request a second review (unless the result of the first review found new reasons why you were refused).
Withdraw your request
Your request for an administrative review will be withdrawn (cancelled) if you make any other immigration or visa application.
Your request will be rejected if you ask for a review of a previous decision after submitting a new application.
You can ask for your request to be withdrawn by writing to the Visa Application Centre you sent it to.
You must include your name, date of birth, nationality and either your administrative review payment reference number or Home Office reference number.