UK visa fees hiked: Here's how much you will pay now for Student, Tourist visa

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student visa and visitor or tourist visa effective from 4 October. The British Government has announced that a UK Tourist Visa for under six months will cost ₹1,543 (£ 15) more and UK Student Visas will be ₹13,070 (£127) more expensive for travelers from around the world, including Indians.

The UK Home Office had earlier indicated a 15% increase in the cost of most work and tourist visas to UK, and an increase of at least 20% in the cost of priority visas, study visas and certificates of sponsorship in UK. The hike in fees applies to the following visa categories -Health and care visa -Applications to register and naturalize as a British citizen -Fees for up to six months, two, five and 10-year visit visas The hike also applies for the majority of fees for entry clearance and certain applications for leave to remain in the UK, including -Those for work and study -Fees for indefinite leave to enter and indefinite leave to remain -Fees in relation to certificates of sponsorship and confirmation of acceptance for studies UK Home office had informed fee for applying for a UK Student Visa from outside the UK will rise to ₹50,428 (£ 490) The UK Home office has informed that the changes mean the cost for a UK Visit Visa for less than six months will rise to ₹11,835 (£ 115) As pointed out by FREETH in an earlier article of Mint, if you are immigrating to the UK with a skilled worker visa (where a certificate of sponsorship has been issued for three years or less), you will have to pay £718 ( ₹77,147).

Currently the fees for this visa category is £625. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had announced in July that the fees and health surcharge paid towards the UK’s state-funded National Health Service (NHS) by visa applicants are