Visas: Overseas Visitors
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has reviewed guidance provided to caseworkers on assessing the likelihood that visitor visa applicants will leave the UK at the end of their visit, particularly in cases where applicants have established long-term residence, employment and family connections in a third country.
Answered by Mike Tapp
The UK keeps its visa system under regular review, which includes regularly reviewing and updating caseworker guidance. The Visit guidance was updated most recently on 25 February 2026, and this document is available publicly on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visit-guidance.
The guidance includes extensive information for caseworkers on assessing the likelihood that visitor visa applicants will leave the UK at the end of their visit. However, as no changes have occurred recently to this assessment, it is not considered necessary to update this section of the guidance document at this time.
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