Multi-entry leave to enter effect for academic visitors

Policy effect

Provides that visit visas granted for academic visitors operate as leave to enter the UK on an unlimited number of occasions during validity, conferring up to 12 months leave on each arrival.

Conditions and exceptions

Does not apply if endorsed with a statement that it is to have effect as a single-entry visa. Leave granted on each entry is 12 months or the visa's remaining validity, whichever is less.

Official source excerpt

Quoted verbatim from the official source below. Ellipses indicate omitted text.

Made 22nd November 2016 Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2) … (2) It comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made. … (2C) A visit visa granted for private medical treatment or for entry as an academic visitor, unless endorsed with a statement that it is to have effect as a single-entry visa, shall have effect as leave to enter the United Kingdom on an unlimited number of occasions during its period of validity in accordance with paragraph (2D). (2D) On arrival in the United Kingdom on each occasion, the holder shall be treated for the purposes of the Immigration Acts as having been granted, before arrival, leave to enter the United Kingdom for a limited period beginning on the date of arrival, being— … (b) where the visit visa is granted for entry as an academic visitor— (i) 12 months if 12 months remain of the visa’s period of validity, or (ii) the visa’s remaining period of validity, if less than 12 months.

Review method

Official-source atomic repair with two-pass Gemini 3.8 Flash review and a final cross-record publication gate

Other United Kingdom changes operative in 2016

• 2016-01-25Registered Traveller membership expanded to Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan
• 2016-02-01Immigration Act 2014
• 2016-04-06Australian and New Zealand nationality exemption from immigration health charge removed
• 2016-04-06Youth Mobility Scheme annual health-charge rate reduced for applicants already liable
• 2016-05-31The Immigration Act 2016 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2016
• 2016-07-12Immigration Act 2016
• 2016-09-12The Immigration (Guidance on Detention of Vulnerable Persons) Regulations 2016
• 2016-11-21Registered Traveller membership expanded to sixteen additional countries
• 2016-11-23Multi-entry leave to enter effect for private medical treatment visit visas
• 2016-11-23Protection from leave lapse for accompanying family of posted Crown servants and British Council staff
• 2016-11-25EEA Regulations 2016 transitory provisions tightening residence criteria for family members of British citizens
• 2016-11-29The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Fees (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2016