Adult Dependent Relative visa: questions Indian applicants ask

Low. The Home Office refuses most applications because it finds paid care is available in India. Cases that succeed usually involve dementia, severe disability or conditions needing a family member rather than a paid carer, with years of medical records. We will tell you honestly before you pay £3,635.

Only for the maintenance test. For the care test it works against you: if they can afford a carer in India, the rule says care is affordable there. The question is whether suitable care exists at all, not whether they would rather you lived with them.

No. The rules require an application from outside the UK. Applying in-country is refused, and overstaying to do so damages every future application.

Yes, when the sponsor is British or settled: you receive indefinite leave to enter, with no extensions and no further fees. If the sponsor has limited leave, you receive leave in line with theirs.

Not when you are granted indefinite leave on entry. If granted limited leave in line with a sponsor who is not yet settled, the surcharge applies for the length of that leave.

A 2, 5 or 10 year Standard Visitor visa, spending up to 6 months at a time in the UK. Many families alternate between children in the UK and home in Punjab. It does not give settlement or NHS care, but it is granted far more often.

Yes, and if both need care each pays the fee. If only one parent needs care and the other is their carer, the rules generally expect both to remain in India unless the carer parent also qualifies.

Yes. Refusals carry a human rights appeal to the First-tier Tribunal. Appeals on this route can succeed where family life evidence is strong, but they take a year or more from India and need a UK lawyer.