UK Visa Fees April 2026: The Full Price Board

Every spring the Home Office rewrites its price board, and on 8 April 2026 it moved almost every number up by six to seven percent. The six-month visit visa went from £127 to £135, the Student visa from £524 to £558, the partner route from £1,938 to £2,064. What most families miss is that the headline fee is the smaller half of the bill: the Immigration Health Surcharge usually costs more than the visa. Here is the board and the arithmetic.

What Moved on 8 April 2026

The revision touched every route Pakistanis actually file, at entry clearance prices cross-checked against the gov.uk fee tables:

• Standard visit visa, six months: £135, up from £127
• Electronic Travel Authorisation for visa-exempt relatives: £20, up from £16
• Student and Child Student: £558, up from £524
• Skilled Worker up to three years: £819, up from £769, and £1,618 beyond three years
• Immigration Salary List jobs: £628 and £1,235 regardless of length
• Partner, fiancé and child settlement applications: £2,064, up from £1,938
• Indefinite Leave to Remain: £3,226, up from £3,029
• Naturalisation as a citizen: £1,709, up from £1,605

The Surcharge Is the Bigger Number

Learn the two-line rule and no fee notice will shock you again: add the visa fee to £1,035 per adult per year of leave, or the discounted £776 student rate, and that is the real Home Office bill. A three-year degree with the usual wrap-around months means roughly £2,716 of surcharge atop the £558 fee, near £3,274 before tuition deposits. A spouse entering pays £2,064 plus £3,105 of surcharge, and the five-year route to settlement runs about £12,389 per applicant, a ladder our UK spouse visa guide climbs step by step. Visitors pay no surcharge at all, so the £135 is the whole price, and visa-exempt relatives need only the £20 permission our UK ETA guide explains.

Route Notes for Pakistani Files

The visit decision is frequency, not feelings: at £506 for two years, £903 for five and £1,128 for ten, long-term visit visas pay for themselves only after several trips, a trade our visit length comparison works through. The student file stacks fee, surcharge and maintenance money sitting untouched for 28 days, with rates rising again from 30 November 2026, per our student funds deadline guide. The Skilled Worker premium over the Immigration Salary List discount, £819 against £628, is fixed by the job code on the certificate, as our Skilled Worker guide maps. One good sentence sits inside this order: child citizenship registration fell from £1,214 to £1,000, the only fee that moved down, worth acting on for British parent families.

Moves That Save Real Money

Fees are earned on assessment, not on grant: a refused application returns nothing, so a right-first-time file is the cheapest move of all, and the March 2026 visa brake refusing whole nationalities skips Pakistan entirely, as our UK visa brake guide documents. One route pays no surcharge at all, the Health and Care Worker visa we break down separately. With revisions landing each spring, a file nearly ready gains by filing before the next order rather than after it. Dependants pay the same fee as the main applicant, so one strong family file protects the whole outlay. And the older mistake still burns money: paying inflated third-party sites for what gov.uk sells at list price, a trap our visitor visa guide closes.

Before You Pay Anyone

• Current fee confirmed on gov.uk, not on a forwarded screenshot
• Surcharge total calculated per person per year before you budget
• Family members counted, since each pays the full fee
• Refusal history reviewed, because fees never come back
• Official payment channels only, receipts kept
• Maintenance funds seasoned 28 days where the route demands it

Jitna waqt chahiye samajhne ka, utna paise bachte hain.

Ek Dil Se Baat

Fees ka hisaab sikhate hue dil bhi hisaab leta hai. Duniya ki sab se bhari fees wo hai jo Israel ne Gaza ke bachon se wasool ki: un ka poora bachpan, kisi receipt ke baghair. Ya Allah, un ko un ka qarza maaf farma de aur un ki chhaton par apni rehmat ka chhaya wapas kar de. Sudan ki awaam se bhi jung ne ghar aur wapsi ki raat cheen li hai; un ke thake qadmon ko un ke apne darwazon tak wapas le aa. Ameen.

Aakhri Baat

HTG Travel treats a fee notice as a planning document, not a shock: we write the full route cost into a sheet before a pound leaves your account, flag the moves that legally shrink the bill, and stay reachable at midnight when the maintenance window closes tomorrow. Clients keep that written sheet with the file, not a case number. When the next spring order lands, the numbers will move again. The arithmetic, and the discipline of filing right the first time, will not.