eVisa concerns
Since the introduction of eVisas on 1 January 2025, the AFF Foreign & Commonwealth team has received numerous enquiries from spouses worried about travelling back to the UK and proving their status. Here ...
Double success for AFF teams
A soldier was given assistance by two of AFF’s specialist teams while he was on assignment overseas.
Pte Jeannick Serieux contacted the Foreign & Commonwealth team when he needed assistance with the non-...
Global Health Insurance cards change
AFF’s overseas team spotted a trend in forces personnel assigned overseas reporting difficulties fulfilling the UK residency rules when applying for their first Global Health Insurance Cards (GHIC), and renew...
Apply for ETA to travel to UK
All visitors to the UK who previously did not need a visa to visit for six months or less, will now have to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) before they travel. The ETA is not a visa, it is ...
Complex casework
AFF’s Foreign & Commonwealth team is made up of qualified immigration advisors and responds to thousands of visa and immigration enquiries a year from serving personnel and their families.
As well as bei...
The detail on COBSEO clusters
The Confederation of Service Charities (COBSEO) hosts a number of different cluster groups to help collaborative working between charities and to ensure that issues are raised and solutions and actions identi...
A step in the right direction for F&C families
AFF Foreign & Commonwealth Specialist, Katherine Houlston, discusses some recent positive changes to the immigration rules…
MINIMUM INCOME REQUIREMENT CHANGE
From 11 April 2024 the Minimum Income Requir...
Immigration rules for young people
The immigration rules for children and young people differ widely to those for adults, allowing caseworkers to exercise discretion in line with the UK’s duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of the child....
AFF’s non-UK team success
The Foreign & Commonwealth team at AFF responds to approximately 3,000 enquiries every year through our email-based service.
F&C Specialist Katherine Houlston outlines a few cases where the team help...
The impact of separation on non-UK army families
Separation is part and parcel of army life, but how do overseas deployments affect non-UK families in particular?
Here AFF’s F&C team, made up of qualified immigration advisors, outlines some recent case...