Your visa, conditions & eVisa

A UK Standard Visitor may come for tourism, seeing family, business meetings and short study, but cannot take work for a UK employer, claim benefits, or effectively live in the UK through repeated visits.

A UK visa's validity is the fixed period between its start and end dates during which your permission and its conditions apply — and staying beyond the end date counts as overstaying.

If your UK visa route allows it, your partner and children under 18 can usually join you as dependants, but each pays their own visa fee and healthcare surcharge, you must show extra money to support them, and most students on taught courses can no longer bring family.

Find out what you can do with a UK Standard Visitor Visa. Learn about permitted and non permitted activities in the UK.

Get guidance on adding children or dependants to a UK Spouse Visa (2026) and navigate the application process effectively.

Find out which nations offer eVisas and how to apply for one, as an online alternative to paper visas, countries offer Evisas.

Britain has replaced physical immigration documents like BRPs and BRCs with eVisas.

The reason for the uniform expiration date is the Home Office's transition to a digital immigration system.