Multiple Visitor visas

[kjkj]

Can a visitor, who has stayed in UK for 6 months, on a 6 month Visitor Visa, go home to Thailand and immediately apply for another 6 or 24 month Visitor Visa? I suspect they can apply but cannot stay in UK again until another 6 months has passed.

Im pretty certain that they can go home and apply for a Settlement Visa, of which there is no 6 month stay out of 12 month limit.

Can anyone confirm any of the above, please.

[Lucapooka]

Generally, regular visitors should only spend six out twelve months in a year (meaning cycle of 354 days; not calendar years) but it´s not a fixed countable number of days as in some other countries and there can be discretion. You could theoretically apply for and be granted another visit visa soon after leaving but it would be an unlikely and arbitrary decision based on your convincing reason to be permitted to return to the UK so soon after being there for such a long period. This does not apply if you are entering the UK in a different visa category where your new entry clearance could be granted immediately.

[kjkj]

Thank you for your info. It makes sense. Ta

[Casa]

I note that you are a Visa Agent and presumably charging your clients for the advice gleaned from the forum, due to your lack of Immigration knowledge.
This isn't a very good advertisement for your 'professional' services.

[Lucapooka]

Well if that is so then please consider suspending their account! If someone from a professional immigration service comes on this forum and wants to fill in the gaps in their professional understanding, and does so in the plain light of day, that is one thing, but to masquerade as an individual with a personal immigration problem, and then sell that knowledge to a client, is completely at odds with the spirit of a free discussion forum, and I would not have responded had I known this was the case.