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Tier 2 Dependant

When making an application for a dependant(s) to join you in the UK the visa office will ask for a specific documents. If the documents are not provided they visa office will refuse the application. The visa officer will not contact you to ask for the missing documents. If unspecified documents are included in the application the visa office will not consider them and they may even hinder the application.

All documentation that is provided must be in English or must be certified translations by a professional translator of the original documents. The original documents must also be provided along with the translation.

This translation must include details of the translator’s credentials and confirmation that it is an accurate translation of the original document. It must also be dated and include the original signature of the translator.

Verification and other checks

The visa office will aim to consider applications quickly. They must be confident the information a family member provides is a true reflection of his/her background.

The visa officer may want to check supporting documents any family member sends with his/her application. Therefore, he/she must ensure that all the evidence comes from a source that can be clearly identified and that it can be independently confirmed as being genuine.
There are two situations in which the visa officer will undertake a check:

• Verification checks

where they have reasonable doubts that the documents are genuine; or

• Other checks

where they carry out further checks, for example, where they have doubts about an application or the documents sent with the application but the doubts are not serious enough for us to make a verification check.

Verification checks

Where they have reasonable doubts that a specified document is genuine they may want to verify the document with an independent person or government agency.

The purpose of these checks is to ensure that the document provided is genuine and accurately reflects statements made in the application. If the document is being used as evidence to score points, the visa officer may also want to ensure that it entitles the family member to claim those points.

Maintenance

The family member of the Tier 2 migrant must have £533 to support himself/herself.
This requirement can be met by:

• having savings of £533 which must have been held for at least three months prior to the date of application; or
• the Tier 2 A-rated sponsor providing a written undertaking that, should it become necessary, it will maintain and accommodate the dependant until the end of the first month of employment.

For example, the Tier 2 migrant is making an application at the same time as his/her spouse and two children. He/she must show that he/she has £533 for his/her spouse and a further £533 for each child, in addition to £800 required for his/her own support. In total the family will require evidence that they hold £2,399 in available funds (£533 x 3 = £1,599 + £800).

However, the family member of Tier 2 migrants is only required to provide evidence that he/she meets the maintenance requirement when the Tier 2 migrant is also required to meet the maintenance requirement.

For example, where the Tier 2 migrant is submitting an application because he/she is changing employment within Tier 2, neither the Tier 2 migrant nor any family member is required to submit evidence that they meet the maintenance requirement.

If a dependant applies separately from the Tier 2 migrant, there must still be enough funds to support each member of the family. Therefore in the example above, if the family has a third child and the family applies for leave to remain for the third child separately, they must provide evidence that they have an additional £533 in available funds.