Our non-UK Armed Forces members couldn’t do what they do without their family support networks, yet families face high visa and settlement costs. Serving personnel from the nations including Fiji, St Vincent and The Grenadines, and Ghana, play a crucial role in the UK Armed Forces. They currently comprise over 1 in 20 trained Regular personnel, and their families provide a vital source of support while they are serving, yet too many non-UK personnel still face significant barriers to family life in the UK. 

At the last election, the Government pledged to “scrap visa fees for non-UK veterans who have served for four or more years and their dependents”. 

Will you join us and sign our petition asking the UK Government to fulfil its promise and remove barriers preventing families of non-UK Armed Forces personnel from staying in the UK?

“It was so difficult for me to leave my wife and children back in Fiji and I knew I had to work hard to save enough to bring them over. But the costs kept going up and up. Eventually we had enough saved to bring my wife over and the plan was to keep working hard and saving for the children.  

“But the costs were staggering. Flights were over a thousand pounds each and it was also much the same for the visas."

Timoci, serving in the UK Army

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