You can ask for a review. The odds of success are slim.

Ask for a visa administrative review

If you're outside the UK

You’ll be told in your application refusal 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 ask for an administrative review if all of the following apply:

• you’re outside the UK
• you applied outside the UK
• your application was refused on or after 6 April 2015
• you don’t have a right of appeal against the refusal
• you didn’t make an application as a visitor or a short term student

How to apply

You must apply for an administrative review within 28 days of getting the decision.

You’ll either get the administrative review application form with your application refusal letter, or you’ll be asked to download it.

When you get the form you must:

• enter the reasons for refusal that are on your decision letter, and say why you think a mistake was made
• send your completed form in the method the application refusal letter suggests (by email, post or in person)

The guidance notes tell you how to fill in the administrative review application form.

You can NOT ask for a review because your application is excluded from review per the link below.

Ask for a visa administrative review

If you're outside the UK

You’ll be told in your application refusal 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 ask for an administrative review if all of the following apply:

• you’re outside the UK
• you applied outside the UK
• your application was refused on or after 6 April 2015
• you don’t have a right of appeal against the refusal
• you didn’t make an application as a visitor or a short term student

How to apply

You must apply for an administrative review within 28 days of getting the decision.

You’ll either get the administrative review application form with your application refusal letter, or you’ll be asked to download it.

When you get the form you must:

• enter the reasons for refusal that are on your decision letter, and say why you think a mistake was made
• send your completed form in the method the application refusal letter suggests (by email, post or in person)

The guidance notes tell you how to fill in the administrative review application form.

Ask for a visa administrative review

If you're outside the UK

You’ll be told in your application refusal 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 ask for an administrative review if all of the following apply:

• you’re outside the UK
• you applied outside the UK
• your application was refused on or after 6 April 2015
• you don’t have a right of appeal against the refusal
• you didn’t make an application as a visitor or a short term student

How to apply

You must apply for an administrative review within 28 days of getting the decision.

You’ll either get the administrative review application form with your application refusal letter, or you’ll be asked to download it.

When you get the form you must:

• enter the reasons for refusal that are on your decision letter, and say why you think a mistake was made
• send your completed form in the method the application refusal letter suggests (by email, post or in person)

The guidance notes tell you how to fill in the administrative review application form.

You can ask for a review. The odds of success are slim.

Ask for a visa administrative review

If you're outside the UK

You’ll be told in your application refusal 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 ask for an administrative review if all of the following apply:

• you’re outside the UK
• you applied outside the UK
• your application was refused on or after 6 April 2015
• you don’t have a right of appeal against the refusal
• you didn’t make an application as a visitor or a short term student

How to apply

You must apply for an administrative review within 28 days of getting the decision.

You’ll either get the administrative review application form with your application refusal letter, or you’ll be asked to download it.

When you get the form you must:

• enter the reasons for refusal that are on your decision letter, and say why you think a mistake was made
• send your completed form in the method the application refusal letter suggests (by email, post or in person)

The guidance notes tell you how to fill in the administrative review application form.