The latest on the. Gov. UK Web site is Standard visitor visa applications are currently taking on average 6 weeks to process. We are working hard to process applications to get back to the 3-week service standard. They are a bit busy with Ukraine refugee visas at present due to the war
Personally I would not risk it. There has been a lot of publicity about this recently with people being refused boarding their flights to various destinations. Let's hope everyone is right or you could easily come unstuck.
You really should contact your airline to let them know if you may need assistance at the airport. If you do they will arrange for assistance on and off the aircraft and through the airport with a wheelchair and if there are steps up to the aircraft they have an ambulift for less able passengers. Good luck and best wishes I hope it works out well for you.
generally that is great advice about what to include but you apply for the visa from the. Gov. UK Web site not the VFS site. It is an online application now not a paper form unless the application is from North Korea. I expect you can do it from the vfs site but it should transfer you to the.. Gov. UK on line application. When you submit the on line form the UK Gov website automatically transfers you to the vfs site with a GWF number. Then you can pay for visa and any services and make an appointment for biometrics with vfs. You have the option to upload supporting evidence documents to vfs rather than take an armful of paper documents but I think you can still take paper documents for now. My tip to anyone would be print off your appointment letter after you finished uploading the documents as it will then include the list of all the documents you uploaded.
then the op can just go to the UK Gov visa Web site and read the information and apply on line from there. All the information is there and its an on line application. I don't know another group but there will be one for visitor visas. Apply from the dot gov dot UK Web site to be sure its the right site.
when I applied for mine back in November the estimated time I think was 3 to 7 days and they emailed it to me I think on the 7th day. When you get it be sure to print the PDF of the visa and take the paper copy with you.
