ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW

If your application is refused and if you are allowed to apply for Administrative Review, you can apply. Application for Administrative Review must be done within the following timelines:

For UK Application – within 14 days of refusal
For application out of UK – within 28 days of refusal
If your visa was cancelled at the border outside UK – within 28 days
If you were given temporary Admission to the UK and want to apply for Administrative Review; you must apply either within 14 days of visa cancelled or within 7 days If you were detained on the day your visa was cancelled. You will need to do this from the UK.

Application for Administrative Review costs £80.

You’ll be told in your decision letter if you can ask for the decision on your application to be reviewed. This is known as an ‘administrative review’.

For application in the UK:

You can only apply for an administrative review if all of the following apply:

you’re in the UK
you applied in the UK
your application was refused

You may be able to appeal against the immigration decision if you’re not eligible for an administrative review.

Get a decision

Currently, it can take 12 months or more to receive the result of the administrative review. If you do not get a decision on your application within 6 months, the Home Office will contact you with an update. Your rights are not affected by the delay in processing applications.

You cannot request a second review (unless the first review found new reasons why the original refusal was correct). Your decision letter will tell you if you can apply for a second review.

If your visa has expired, you will not usually be removed from the UK until your review has been completed.

Withdraw your request

Your request for an administrative review will be withdrawn (cancelled) if you:

make any other immigration or visa application
ask for your passport back so you can travel
leave the UK

Your request will be rejected if you ask for a review of a previous decision after submitting a new application.

You can email the Home Office and ask for your request to be withdrawn. Your application fee will not be refunded.

If you're outside the UK

You’ll be told in your decision letter if you can ask for the decision on your visa application to be reviewed. This is known as an ‘administrative review’.

You can only apply for an administrative review if all of the following apply:

you’re outside the UK
you applied outside the UK
your application was refused

There’s a different way to ask for an administrative review if you applied as a Frontier Worker.

Apply for an administrative review

If you want an administrative review, you must apply within 28 days of getting the decision. It costs £80.

You can apply online for an administrative review.

Get a decision

Currently, it can take 12 months or more to receive the result of the administrative review. If you do not get a decision on your application within 6 months, the Home Office will contact you with an update. Your rights are not affected by the delay in processing applications.

You cannot request a second review (unless the result of the first review found new reasons why you were refused). Your decision letter will tell you if you can apply for a second review.

Withdraw your request

Your request for an administrative review will be withdrawn (cancelled) if you make any other immigration or visa application.

Your request will be rejected if you ask for a review of a previous decision after submitting a new application.

You can email the Home Office and ask for your request to be withdrawn. Your application fee will not be refunded.