Skip to content
Tom Bradford
  • 📞 Let’s speak
  • 🇬🇧 UK visa programmes – my latest videos
    • What to do IMMEDIATELY after lodging your Administrative Review form
    • Innovator ILR and extension DELAYS – one way to speed up the decision
    • Peer review visas main refusal reasons to avoid!
    • Innovator ILR what is the minimum revenue you need to make
    • Sole representative ILR applications the main challenge
    • Tech Nation visa endorsement skillsets which skills and experience qualify you
    • Innovator ILR form: walkthrough
    • Impossible case COVID absences for ILR and naturalisation cases
    • Do I need to pick up my BRP if I already have an e-visa?
    • Common Global Talent ILR problem
    • Settlement for Innovator Founders – you will be asked these questions
    • Naturalisation absences COVID 19
    • UK Visa refusal in country with a right to administrative review what do I do
    • The Arts Council visa: the easy way
    • Three pain points for Innovator Founder Visa applicants
    • Update It’s easier to apply for the unmarried partner visa now
    • How to plan your studies for the January 2025 SQE1 exam
    • Keep an eye on your legacy endorsing body as an Innovator visa holder!
    • If you have the O1 visa in the US, then you can get the Global Talent visa in the UK
    • Which is the best endorsing body for the Innovator Founder visa in 2024?
    • How to get the Arts Council endorsement for Global Talent as a writer 📚
    • Using the same email address for main applicant and dependent when submitting your Innovator Founder ILR application
    • Get the date right on your Innovator Founder ILR form for dependent spouse extensions (NHS surcharge)
    • How to change your business idea under the Innovator Founder visa (and still get ILR)
    • A great way to prepare for the Global Talent visa Tech Nation
    • Visas for rap artists (through the Arts Council)
    • Divorce on the spouse visa – when to notify the Home Office?
    • Alert to Innovator visa or Innovator Founder visa holders who are applying for settlement!
    • Endorsing bodies not holding contact meetings for those on the Innovator visa route!
    • The best way to structure a Tech Nation application for the Global Talent visa
    • Should you sell your company on the Innovator Founder visa?
    • Why are Innovator Founder visa refusal rates going up?
    • How to make awesome Global Talent Tech Nation supporting documents and references
    • Settlement endorsement letters for Innovator Founders (what to look out for)
    • Tech redundancies – bridging visas
    • How academics can get a UK visa
    • Commercialising your PHD or Masters thesis for the Innovator Founder visa
    • The real cost of work visa sponsorship
    • How to deal with absences including COVID for ‘long residence’ applications
    • How to get a business idea for the Innovator Founder visa
    • COVID absences when applying for naturalisation
    • Alert for students switching to Innovator Founder visa!
    • What is the ‘best’ visa for the UK right now?
    • Using Jira & Bubble for the Innovator Founder visa
    • Which bank should you use for a Sponsor Licence application?
    • ‘Earned Money Requirement’ for Global Talent ILR applications small companies
    • How to show “structured planning” for the Innovator Founder visa
    • How to switch from the Start up visa to the Innovator Founder visa
    • Should you use a “business plan writer” for the Innovator Founder visa
    • How to get a ‘returning resident’ visa (new rules)
    • How to change your business venture on the Innovator visa without switching
    • How to switch from the ‘old’ Innovator visa into the Innovator Founder visa
    • Can an undergraduate bring dependents to the UK? Also changes coming up!
    • The second year is critical for the Innovator Founder visa
    • Can you do a food delivery app under the Innovator Founder visa
    • Innovator Founder visa (complete process)
    • Innovator Founder visa examples of innovation
    • How to reach the 10 year ILR point using student visas and graduate visas
    • How to meet the ‘jobs’ criteria as an Innovator Founder
    • Visa curtailed example timeframe it’s not necessarily 60 days!
    • What happens if you overstay your visa? (its not necessary game over)
    • Struggling with a UK visitor visa application? Try this
    • “Self-sponsorship” visas for the UK (is it really possible?)
    • Apply before it’s too late! Global Entrepreneur Programme: start up visa and innovator visa
    • Co founders: which UK visa route is best?
    • Document checklist for UK dependent visa
    • 7 tips for your Personal Statement for the UK Global Talent visa
    • Non EU family members of EU citizens in the UK after Brexit
    • Skilled worker ILR guidance
    • What is the success rate for the UK innovator visa?
    • Start-up visa (UK) – what you need to know
    • Start-up visa (UK) – extensions
    • What’s going on with Tech Nation? Global Talent endorsements
    • Finally! Clarification on the ILR criteria for innovator founders
    • Can I start a business on a UK student visa?
    • “Investment matching” under the Innovator Founder visa
    • PASS/FAIL Business idea examples for the Innovator Founder visa
    • The ‘hidden’ cost of the Innovator Founder visa
    • Example of a ‘scalable’ Innovator Founder idea
    • New endorsing bodies Innovator Founder visa
    • The new ‘Innovator Founder’ UK visa – what you need to know!
    • My fourth innovator visa client gets ILR (can you really have more than 180 days out though?)
    • Third indefinite leave to remain application granted under the innovator visa!
    • Refused after endorsement? What’s going on with the innovator visa success rates?
    • Another innovator ILR application granted!
    • Applying for indefinite leave to remain on the innovator visa – 3 TIPS!
    • Your children on the innovator visa and global talent visa: what if they turn 18 before you get a decision on the visa application?
    • Graduate visa – WARNING!
    • Where is the QR code for the ID Check app for my UK visa application
    • Positioning yourself for a settlement visa after graduation
    • Alternatives to the UK investor visa
    • Global Talent teams vs innovator visa teams? (visa challenges and solutions)
    • Exceptionally talented or exceptionally promising? (ADVANCED TIPS – plus switching from the innovator visa or skilled worker visa)
    • “You don’t have any dependents” (NHS Health Surcharge)
    • How long is the life in the uk test valid for?
    • Applying for ILR on the Global Talent route (SET-O form tips)
    • Avoiding a naturalisation refusal: absences (and COVID)!
    • Applying for ILR on the innovator visa (important tips)
    • Multiple businesses (on the start-up and innovator visas)
    • Innovator and start-up: using an existing business that you have already started abroad
    • Changing your business plan on the innovator & start-up visas
    • Global Talent ILR applications risks and points to check
    • Global Talent visa – do you have the right experience?
    • Peer review endorsement from the Royal Academy of Engineering (Global Talent visa)
098 What to do IMMEDIATELY after lodging your Administrative Review form

What to do IMMEDIATELY after lodging your Administrative Review form

Published on: 21 January 2026

Let's speak

Book a paid consultation call with me:

Book a call

“an ideal choice for … business immigration matters”
Chambers and Partners

"outstandingly professional, well organised and empathetic" 
Legal 500

“masterful command of immigration law”
Legal 500

“is able to advance his client’s case with exceptional clarity and persuasion”
Legal 500

Accessibility
Legal notices and policies
Public access form
Bar Standards Board Transparency Rules
Copyright information

As featured in:

Let's speak

Let's speak

I am a barrister regulated by the Bar Standards Board

© Tom Bradford 2026