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Regulation 2 Interpretation

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(1)

In these Regulations—

  • “the Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;

  • “entry clearance officer” means a person responsible for the grant or refusal of entry clearance;

  • “fee” means the fee required to be paid in accordance with regulation 3(1);

  • “first cousin” means, in relation to a person, the son or daughter of his uncle or aunt;

  • “repayment” means any repayment required to be made in accordance with regulation 3(3).

(2)

For the purposes of section 60(10) of the Act, a “family visitor” is a person who applies for entry clearance to enter the United Kingdom as a visitor, in order to visit—

(a)

his spouse, father, mother, son, daughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece or first cousin;

(b)

the father, mother, brother or sister of his spouse;

(c)

the spouse of his son or daughter;

(d)

his stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother or stepsister; or

(e)

a person with whom he lived as a member of an unmarried couple for at least two of the three years before the day on which his application for entry clearance was made.