Como não-nacionais de visto, os australianos podem ser britânicos como turistas e permanecer por até seis meses. Pelos meus cálculos, você permaneceu por cinco meses e planejou uma visita de retorno em julho do ano seguinte, até certo ponto uma viagem anual de um australiano para visitar a família no Reino Unido.
O Reino Unido não tem restrições quanto ao número de visitas que uma pessoa pode fazer, nem há um tempo especificado que deve decorrer entre as visitas. Ninguém tem entrada garantida em um país que não seja deles, mesmo que sua mãe esteja com eles.
Aqui está um pouco do que um Oficial de Imigração considera quando um indivíduo se apresenta na fronteira para admissão, seguindo o Diretrizes para escritórios domésticos (na página 17):
Frequent or successive visits: how to assess if an applicant is making the UK their main home or place of work
See: paragraph V 4.2(b) of appendix V: visitor rules.
You should check the applicant’s travel history, including how long they are spending in the UK and how frequently they are returning. You must assess if they are, in effect, making the UK their main home.
You should look at:
- the purpose of the visit and intended length of stay stated
- the number of visits made over the past 12 months, including the length of stay on each occasion, the time elapsed since the last visit, and if this amounts to the individual spending more time in the UK than in their home country
- the purpose of return trips to the visitor’s home country and if this is used only to seek re-entry to the UK
- the links they have with their home country - consider especially any long term commitments and where the applicant is registered for tax purposes
- evidence the UK is their main place of residence, for example:
• if they have registered with a general practitioner (GP)
• if they send their children to UK schools- the history of previous applications, for example if the visitor has previously been refused under the family rules and subsequently wants to enter as a visitor you must assess if they are using the visitor route to avoid the rules in place for family migrants joining British or settled persons in the UK
There is no specified maximum period which an individual can spend in the UK in any period such as ‘6 months in 12 months’. However, if it is clear from an individual’s travel history that they are making the UK their home you should refuse their application.