Vary your immigration application
How to vary an application for permission to stay in the UK if you now want to apply for a different purpose. For example, to change from student to skilled worker.
If you’ve applied for permission to stay in the UK but now want to make a different application, you can vary your application if the Home Office has not yet sent a decision on it.
If you had permission when you made your application that permission will continue when you vary that application.
The application date will remain as the date you submitted the previous application.
If the Home Office has already made a decision on your application, you cannot vary it. Any application you make will be treated as a new application.
How to vary an application
Visit the Visas and immigration section and choose the relevant application you’d now like to make.
When you begin your new application, you’ll be asked if you currently have an existing application on which you’ve not yet received a decision. You’ll need to provide the reference number for that existing application.
You’ll need to pay the application fee and immigration health surcharge for the new application. However, you’ll receive a refund of the previous application fee and the immigration health surcharge if you paid it.
Dependants
If the new application allows dependants, they can apply with you. Depending on the application form, they can either be included in your application, or make an application at the same time as you, as your dependant.
If the new application does not allow dependants, and you had included them as part of your previous application, you’ll need to let them know that they need to make their own application to stay in the UK.