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Do you need to submit a separate VAF4A (Appendix 2) form when making an entry clearance application using the new online form? On what basis can the Home Office request this?

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Produced in partnership with Nick Nason of Edgewater Legal
Published on: 13 August 2019
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Form VAF4A (Appendix 2) is filled out by an individual making an application under Immigration Rules, Appendix FM to demonstrate how they intend to meet the financial requirement.

Nick Nason
Nick Nason

Director, Edgewater Legal

Nick is founder and principal lawyer at Edgewater Legal , a firm specialising in immigration solutions for individuals and small companies.

Prior to this Nick was a solicitor and in-house advocate at Luqmani Thompson & Partners (2010-2015), and before this a volunteer at Bail for Immigration Detainees (2009-2010).

In 2016, Nick took a sabbatical and spent time volunteering with the Refugee Legal Aid Program at St. Andrew's Refugee Services (StARS) in Cairo, assisting individuals making initial asylum applications to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Nick regularly writes about immigration law and policy issues for Free Movement , and was funded by the Strategic Legal Fund to provide an analysis of the legality of Operation Nexus , a collaboration between the police and immigration officials aimed at increasing the number of individuals deported from the UK.

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Entry clearance definition
What does Entry clearance mean?

A visa, entry certificate or other document which, in accordance with the immigration rules, is to be taken as evidence or the requisite evidence of a person's eligibility, though he is not a British citizen, for entry into the United Kingdom: see Immigration Act 1971, s 33(1).

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