Tourist or Visit Visa

Please provide photocopies of all the documents you will be submitting:

1. 1. A completed visa application form: Visitor Form (VAF1 OCT 2007)
2. One recent coloured and unframed passport sized photos taken with a light background approximately 45mm X 35mm in size and glued not stapled onto the designated space for the picture in the application form.
3. Visa fee in pesos. Payable across the Bank counter or Manager’s Check (only from BPI, Banco de Oro, Metrobank & Standard Chartered bank), made payable to the British Embassy Manila. 
4. Current passport valid for at least 6 months and any old passports. A parent or guardian must sign passports of child applicants.
5. If sponsored: a. An invitation letter from the UK (if sponsored by a UK resident) b. Copies of sponsors passport (personal details page and all the stamped pages) c. Evidence that sponsor can support your trip. We would recommend you supply up-to-date detailed bank statements and other savings covering a period of 6 months prior to the date of application. d. For parents/grandparents/brothers/sisters who have not previously traveled to the UK evidence of relationship to sponsor in the UK is required ( e.g. Birth Certificate Marriage certificate)
6. If you or your spouse are employed an updated employment letter stating position salary and number of leave given for the trip with specified dates.
7. Evidence of savings. We would recommend you supply up-to-date detailed bank statements and bank pass books covering a period of 6 months prior to date of application. Plus a bank certificate.
8. Land titles if any.
9. Business documents if self-employed i.e. Business Registration Business Permit DTI or SEC Registration Mayors Permit etc.
10. A signed Visa Application Checklist (please click on the corresponding link of your computer screen).

IMPORTANT:
It is recommended that applicants who are traveling to the UK for the first time start off by applying for a 6 month visa. However, if first-time travelers wish to apply for a 1, 2, 5, or 10 year visa, they may do so knowing that that the visa fee is NON-REFUNDABLE should the British Embassy decide, upon its' discretion, to issue only a 6 month visa. Please note that UKVisas has issued a worldwide directive that effective immediately and due to the planned introduction of biometrics in 2007, the British Embassy will not be issuing 10 year visas until further notice. Applicants are therefore advised that henceforth, and until further notice, the maximum visa duration to be issued will be 5 years. In the future, and once the biometric system is fully in place, it will be possible for applicants to apply for a visa valid for 10 years.