Refused a UK visitor visa on the purpose of your visit
This ground is almost never about honesty. It is about a set of documents that describe slightly different trips: an invitation for one fortnight, flights for another, leave approved for a third.
Paste your refusal letter. See the grounds they used and the route you have. Free, no email.
What the ground says
Appendix V: Visitor, V 4.2(c)
The applicant must be genuinely seeking entry or leave to remain for a purpose that is permitted by the visitor routes.
Whether the story the documents tell is one story. The stated purpose, the dates, the invitation, the booking and the spending must all describe the same trip.
What "not satisfied as to the purpose" means
The officer has read the form, the invitation, the itinerary and the bank statements, and they do not describe one trip. It reads as a file assembled to meet a requirement rather than a journey someone is about to take.
The four dates that have to agree
The dates on the form, the dates in the invitation, the dates on the bookings, and the leave your employer approved. If any one of them is different, the officer has a ground without needing to doubt anything you said.
What answers it
A dated itinerary covering every day of the stay. Accommodation for the whole period, not the first three nights. An invitation that gives the host's address and status and the same dates as everything else. Evidence of the event you are attending, where there is one.
Your route
You reapply. This ground is one of the more answerable ones, because the fix is usually a set of corrected documents rather than a change in your circumstances.
Evidence that addresses it
- A day-by-day or week-by-week itinerary with dates
- The invitation letter, where someone is inviting you, with their address and status
- Flight reservations or bookings matching the itinerary dates
- Accommodation bookings for the whole stay
- Evidence of any event you are attending: tickets, a conference registration, a wedding invitation
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.