The wording is usually "I am not satisfied that you are a genuine visitor" followed by "that you will leave the UK at the end of your visit". It is paragraph V 4.2(a) of Appendix V, and it is the most common ground on this route.
Appendix V: Visitor, V 4.2(a)
The applicant must satisfy the decision maker that they are a genuine visitor, which means the applicant will leave the UK at the end of their visit.
Whether your circumstances at home give you a reason to return that outweighs any reason to stay. The officer weighs employment, family, property, study and previous travel together, not one by one.
The applicant must satisfy the decision maker that they are a genuine visitor, which means the applicant: (a) will leave the UK at the end of their visit;
Immigration Rules, Appendix V: Visitor, V 4.2(a)
their personal and economic ties to their country of residence
Visit guidance, for Home Office staff, Genuineness and credibility: assessing personal circumstances
the applicant has few or no family and economic ties to their country of residence, and has several family members in the UK
Visit guidance, for Home Office staff, Reasons for doubting whether the applicant is a genuine visitor
An application for a visit visa which, if granted, could result in permission to spend more than 6 of 12 months in the United Kingdom is likely to be scrutinised rigorously but it is wrong to refuse someone entry clearance as a general visitor just because they have spent more than six of the last twelve months in the United Kingdom.
Oppong (visitor - length of stay) Ghana, Headnote
Ties, taken together rather than one by one: employment, dependants, property, study, a business, and a record of leaving other countries on time. The officer is not scoring you. They are asking what pulls you home, and looking for it in the documents rather than in the sentences.
Because the ties were stated and not evidenced. An application says "I am employed as a teacher" and contains no employment letter, no payslips and no approved leave. Or the ties are real and held in someone else's name: the family house in a parent's name, informal work with no contract, savings in a relative's account.
An employment letter on headed paper naming your role, start date, salary, the exact leave approved for this trip and a signatory who can be telephoned. Payslips covering the same months as your statements. Property documents in your own name. Birth certificates for dependants who stay behind. Every previous passport, showing that you went and came back.
There is no appeal on an ordinary visitor refusal and no waiting period. You reapply, and the new application is decided on its own evidence. What changes the result is answering this ground with documents that were not there last time.
There is no limit on how soon you can apply again, and no limit on how many times. A new application is decided on its own evidence, so the only thing that changes the outcome is addressing the grounds the officer used.
Administrative review corrects a case working error. It is not available on most Standard Visitor refusals, and it cannot consider evidence you did not already send.
This route needs a regulated adviser.
A visitor refusal carries a right of appeal only where the refusal is of a human rights claim. This needs a regulated adviser.
This route needs a regulated adviser.
The requirements are in Appendix V: Visitor of the Immigration Rules. Part Suitability holds the grounds for refusal that apply to every route, including deception, false information and previous breaches of immigration law. The paragraph numbers printed on your refusal notice govern.
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