UK Immigration Fees Rise from 8 April 2026 - ILR Now £3,226 Per Person
24 Apr 2026
If you're planning to apply for ILR, renew your BNO visa, or apply for British citizenship, you'll now face higher fees. The Home Office raised most immigration and nationality charges on 8 April 2026 by around 6–7%. There is one piece of good news, though: the fee to register a child as a British citizen has been cut significantly.
What's gone up
The ILR application fee has risen from £3,029 to £3,226 per applicant — a £197 increase. For a family of four applying for settlement together, that's close to £13,000 in application fees before any legal costs. Priority service (£500 extra) and super priority (£1,000 extra) are on top of that.
BNO visa fees have also increased: a 30-month BNO visa now costs £206 (up from £193) and the five-year option costs £285 (up from £268). Skilled Worker visa fees have risen too — a visa for three years or under applied for from inside the UK is now £943 (up from £885), and over three years inside the UK is £1,865 (up from £1,751). The adult naturalisation fee has gone from £1,605 to £1,709.
The good news for families with children
The one significant reduction is the child British citizenship registration fee, cut from £1,214 to £1,000 — a saving of £214 per child. This follows years of campaigning by charities who argued it was wrong to charge children more than the actual processing cost (estimated at £575). The new £1,000 fee is still well above cost price, but it's a meaningful reduction for families planning to register children born in the UK or who have lived here for years.
Does this affect applications already submitted?
No. If you submitted your application before 8 April 2026, the old fee applies even if your decision comes later. The new fees only apply to applications submitted on or after 8 April 2026.
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