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You’ll be told in your decision letter if you can ask for the decision on your visa application to be reviewed. This is known as an ‘administrative review’.

You can only apply for an administrative review if all of the following apply:

• you’re outside the UK
• you applied outside the UK
• your application was refused

There’s a different way to ask for an administrative review if you applied:

• as a Frontier Worker
• as a Service Provider from Switzerland

Apply for an administrative review

If you want an administrative review, you must apply within 28 days of getting the decision. It costs £80.

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Get a decision

Currently, it can take 12 months or more to receive the result of the administrative review. If you do not get a decision on your application within 6 months, the Home Office will contact you with an update. Your rights are not affected by the delay in processing applications.

You cannot request a second review (unless the result of the first review found new reasons why you were refused). Your decision letter will tell you if you can apply for a second review.

Withdraw your request

Your request for an administrative review will be withdrawn (cancelled) if you make any other immigration or visa application.

Your request will be rejected if you ask for a review of a previous decision after submitting a new application.

You can email the Home Office and ask for your request to be withdrawn. Your application fee will not be refunded.

You must include your name, date of birth, nationality and your Global Web Form (GWF) reference number.

Your GWF reference number was given to you when you first applied. You can find it on emails and letters from the Home Office about your application.

You’ll be told in your decision letter if you can ask for the decision on your application to be reviewed. This is known as an ‘administrative review’.

You can only apply for an administrative review if all of the following apply:

• you’re in the UK
• you applied in the UK
• your application was refused

You may be able to appeal against the immigration decision if you’re not eligible for an administrative review.

There’s a different way to ask for an administrative review if you applied:

• as a Frontier Worker
• as a Service Provider from Switzerland

Apply for an administrative review

You must apply for an administrative review within 14 days of getting the decision.

If you were detained on the day you got your decision, you must apply within 7 days.

You can . It costs £80.

Get a decision

Currently, it can take 12 months or more to receive the result of the administrative review. If you do not get a decision on your application within 6 months, the Home Office will contact you with an update. Your rights are not affected by the delay in processing applications.

You cannot request a second review (unless the first review found new reasons why the original refusal was correct). Your decision letter will tell you if you can apply for a second review.

If your visa has expired, you will not usually be removed from the UK until your review has been completed.

Withdraw your request

Your request for an administrative review will be withdrawn (cancelled) if you:

• make any other immigration or visa application
• ask for your passport back so you can travel
• leave the UK

Your request will be rejected if you ask for a review of a previous decision after submitting a new application.

You can email the Home Office and ask for your request to be withdrawn. Your application fee will not be refunded.

You must include your name, date of birth, nationality and either your administrative review payment reference number or Home Office reference number in your email.

You can ask for the decision to be reviewed if your visa was cancelled for one or more of the following reasons:

• there has been a change in your circumstances
• you gave false information
• you failed to include relevant facts

Apply for an administrative review

You can . It costs £80.

If you were given temporary admission to the UK

If you want an administrative review, you must apply either:

• within 14 days of your visa being cancelled
• within 7 days if you were detained on the date your visa was cancelled
  You need to do this from the UK.

If your visa was cancelled at border controls outside the UK

If you want an administrative review, you must apply within 28 days of your visa being cancelled in any of the following cities:

• Paris
• Brussels
• Dunkirk
• Coquelles
• Calais
• Lille

Get a decision

Currently, it usually takes 28 days or more to receive the result of the administrative review.

You cannot request a second review (unless the first review found new reasons why the cancellation was correct). Your decision letter will tell you if you can apply for a second review.

If you’re in the UK, you will not usually be removed until your review has been completed.

Withdraw your request

Your request for an administrative review will be withdrawn (cancelled) if you:

• make any other immigration or visa application
• ask for your passport back so you can travel
• leave the UK

Your request will be rejected if you ask for a review of a previous decision after submitting a new application.

You can email the Home Office and ask for your request to be withdrawn. Your application fee will not be refunded.

You must include your name, date of birth, nationality and either your administrative review payment reference number or Home Office reference number in your email.