Refused a UK visitor visa on intention to leave
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.
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What the ground says
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.
What the officer was weighing
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.
Why this ground is usually ticked
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.
What answers it
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.
Your route
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.
Evidence that addresses it
- Employment letter on headed paper stating role, start date, salary and approved leave dates
- Payslips covering the same period as the bank statements
- Business registration, tax filings and business bank statements where self-employed
- Property deeds, a tenancy agreement or a mortgage statement in the applicant's name
- Evidence of dependants: birth certificates, school letters, care responsibilities
- Previous passports showing visas used and departures made on time
- Proof of enrolment and term dates where studying
Your route
Reapply
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, within 28 days
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.
Appeal on human rights grounds, within 28 days
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 9 holds the general grounds for refusal. The paragraph numbers printed on your refusal notice govern.
Reapply, £49
We read the refusal, name the grounds and the route, check every ground against your documents with the refused ones held open, and write the reapplication letter that answers each one by its reference. Re-runs and second-refusal handling included for 30 days.