Dependent relative visa options for situations requiring care

[sachin_d_hsn]

Hi all,

Background :
I am currently under Tier 2 General Visa for 3 years.
I have dependent wife whose application (Tier 2 dependent) is yet to be made.

My mother in-law is currently undergoing cancer treatment and would complete in next 2 months.
Post that she would be required to have lifelong medications.
She will be requiring constant care from myself and my wife.
My wife is the only daughter she has.

Query:
What are my options to bring my mother in-law into UK for all three years ?
If possible, I don't want to take the route of visitor visa which mandates travelling back every 6 months.

Thanks in advance.

[secret.simon]

Very few to none.

Even British citizens can't sponsor their Adult Dependent Relatives except in very limited cases. Even for British citizens, the success rate for such applications is only 22% after appeals (i.e. 78% are rejected even after appeals). And if she does make the application and is denied, that also closes the door to any future visit visas as she has shown an interest in residing in the UK, not in only visiting.

Simply put, there is no route for her to move to the UK. You may have to look at funding care for her in her country of habitual residence.

As an aside, repeat visit visas are also not an option. Not only is residing in the UK in "the guise of frequent and successive visits" expressly forbidden by the Immigration Rules, but also the NHS would charge 150% of the cost of any treatment in the UK to people on visit visas. And most travel insurance do not cover more than the first 30-35 days of stay in a particular country.