UK Announces 'Significant Increase' In Visa Application Fees

The Prime Minister Of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak has announced an increase in the payment of fees for visa application for immigrants.

He stated also that the fees paid for National Health Service (NHS) by applicants intending to migrate to the UK is going to “increase significantly.”

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunek

Sunak said in a tweet: “If we’re going to prioritise paying public sector workers more, that money has to come from somewhere else because I’m not prepared to put up people’s taxes and I don’t think it would be responsible or right to borrow more because that would just make inflation worse.So, what we have done are two things to find this money. The first is, we are going to increase the charges that we have for migrants who are coming to this country when they apply for visas and indeed something called the immigration health surcharge (IHS), which is the levy that they pay to access the NHS.All of those fees are going to go up and that will raise over £1 billion. So, across the board visa application fees are going to go up significantly and similarly for the IHS.”

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He also stated that the decision wouldn’t have a negative impact on inflation and that the government wouldn’t need to take any loans.

Recall that not long ago, The United States embassy also announced its plans to increase visa application fees for the non-immigrant visa (NIV) package.In a statement posted on its official website, fees for other visa categories also came into effect from June 17, 2023.