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<p>Applicants wishing to apply for an entry clearance fee waiver must do so by submitting
an online application form. Once assessed, a decision on the fee waiver application
is sent by email to the email address specified on the application form by either
the applicant or their representative.</p><p> </p><p>Applications for Leave to Remain
fee waivers are mandated to be completed online, to receive a decision by email. However,
in exceptional circumstances leave to remain fee waiver applications can be submitted
on a paper form, in which case we will offer the applicant the choice of a paper or
electronic decision.</p><p> </p><p>Child Citizenship fee waiver applications can also
be submitted on paper or online. These decisions may be despatched by email or post
accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>It is the applicant’s (or their representative’s) responsibility
to monitor their email inbox and ‘spam’ folder in anticipation of our decision email.</p><p>
</p><p>Information on the number of applicants whose leave to remain expired following
the issue of a fee waiver decision of which the applicant was not aware, is not captured.
To recover this information would require a manual examination of each individual
case and would thus incur disproportionate cost.</p>
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