Ask for a visa administrative review

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If your visa was cancelled at the border

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

You can ask for the decision to be reviewed if your visa was cancelled for one or more of the following reasons:

  • there has been a change in your circumstances
  • you gave false information
  • you failed to include relevant facts

Apply for an administrative review

You can apply online for an administrative review. It costs £80.

If you were given temporary admission to the UK

If you want an administrative review, you must apply either:

  • within 14 days of your visa being cancelled
  • within 7 days if you were detained on the date your visa was cancelled
    You need to do this from the UK.

If your visa was cancelled at border controls outside the UK

If you want an administrative review, you must apply within 28 days of your visa being cancelled in any of the following cities:

  • Paris
  • Brussels
  • Dunkirk
  • Coquelles
  • Calais
  • Lille

Get a decision

Currently, it usually takes 28 days or more to receive the result of the administrative review.

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

If you’re in the UK, you will not usually be removed 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Your request for an administrative review will be withdrawn (cancelled) if you: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You can email the Home Office and ask for your request to be withdrawn.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.

Home Office
Admin.Review.BF@homeoffice.gov.uk

You must include your name, date of birth, nationality and either your administrative review payment reference number or Home Office reference number in your email.

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