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Affordability fee waiver: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on processing applications for a fee waiver from overseas Human Rights-based applications (Article 8).

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Affordability fee waiver: overseas Human Rights-based applications (Article 8)

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance on how staff consider applications for a fee waiver from overseas.

This applies to those who are going on to make a specified human rights application and where to require payment of the fee before deciding the application would be incompatible with a person’s rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

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Published 16 June 2022