Home office will charge visa applications...

[Renata]

Ovo je inace s www.come2UK.com

Today, the Home Office announced that from 1 August they will charge for applications made to them.

The charges are £155 for a postal application, £250 for personal ones. Among the applications charged: extensions of stay (i.e., visa renewal, switching category), indefinite leave to remain, or stamping of a visa on a new passport.

The charges will not apply to EEA nationals and their families and those under the EC Association Agreement. Work permits and HSMP visas are already charged for.

They also said they aim at processing postal applications in a maximum of 13 weeks, with 70% percent resolved in 3 weeks.

More details at www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/news.asp?NewsID=296

[Nick]

Hasn't Croatia signed a European Community Association Agreement, therfore making Croatian Citizens ept from these charges?

[mark]

hope i am wrong, but i fear that croatia was only allowed top sign a stabilisation and association agreement which appears to be a specific agreement for ex yugoslavia states and differs from those signed by the 10 states to join in May 2004 (and bulgaria/romania)