Visitor

The Visitor route

The Visitor (standard) route was introduced into the Immigration Rules with effect from 24 April 2015 via Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 1025. It replaced and consolidated the following previous visit and other categories:

  1. general visitor

  2. business visitor

  3. child visitor

  4. sports visitor

  5. entertainer visitor

  6. PLAB test

  7. clinical attachments

  8. prospective entrepreneur

  9. private medical treatment

For applications made after 24 April 2015 and before 9 am on 1 December 2020, the Immigration Rules for visitors were set out in Appendix: V Visitor Rules. This was intended to be a free-standing appendix to the Immigration Rules with very few cross-references to other Parts or Appendices.

From 9 am on 1 December 2020, the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 813 removed Appendix V and introduced the following six appendices into the Immigration Rules:

  1. Immigration Rules, Appendix V: Visitor

  2. Immigration Rules, Appendix Visitor: Permitted Activities

  3. Immigration Rules, Appendix Visitor: Visa National list

  4. Immigration Rules, Appendix Visitor: Permit Free Festivals

  5. Immigration Rules, Appendix Visitor: Transit Without Visa Scheme, and

  6. Immigration Rules, Appendix S2 Healthcare

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