{"id":277671,"date":"2018-10-16T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=277671"},"modified":"2018-10-16T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:21:17","slug":"big-increase-in-the-cost-of-uk-visas-will-hit-south-africans-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/277671\/big-increase-in-the-cost-of-uk-visas-will-hit-south-africans-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Big increase in the cost of UK visas will hit South Africans hard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK Government has announced that it will double the current Immigration Health Surcharge from December 2018.<\/p>\n

According to Breytenbachs Immigration Consultants, the new immigration health surcharge will also double the amount payable by all visa applicants.<\/p>\n

“At present, the Immigration Health Surcharge payable by a person applying for a UK visa is \u00a3200 (R3,782) per year. All visa applicants, will thus henceforth pay \u00a3400 (R7,564) per year,” it explained.<\/p>\n

“A client applying for a UK Ancestry Visa for a period of five-years will thus be liable to pay a very hefty \u00a32,000 (R37,824) from December 2018.<\/p>\n

“Applicants in the Student Visa and Youth Mobility Visa category pay a lower discounted surcharge. The surcharge for the discounted categories is \u00a3150 per year, per applicant. They will in from December 2018 pay \u00a3300 per year, per applicant,” it said.<\/p>\n

Breytenbachs noted that persons applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain and British Citizenship do not have to pay the immigration health surcharge.<\/p>\n

In addition, vulnerable groups, such as slavery victims and asylum seekers are exempt while the Immigration Health Surcharge is also not payable by applicants for Visitor visas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The UK Government has announced that it will double the current Immigration Health Surcharge from December 2018 – here’s how much you can now expect to pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":94011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-277671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277671"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277697,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277671\/revisions\/277697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}