Guides for parents and family visiting abroad
Plain-English guides on invitation letters, official visitor pages, flying with older relatives, travel cover, medicines and food across borders, graduations, staying with family, longer visits, overstay and scams. Each one links to its official source and shows the date we last verified it. General information, not immigration or medical advice.
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Showing guides for Canada plus guides that apply to every destination.
Family guides apply to the UK, Canada, Australia and Germany. See the family planner.
Visas & permits 4
If plans change: avoiding an overstay
Know the date your permission to stay ends, keep your return flight aligned, and know where the official extension pages are. No promises about outcom...
VerifiedInvitation letters for a family visit
What an invitation letter from your child or relative usually contains, and why no letter or template can promise approval. Official pages linked.
VerifiedLonger family visits: where to look
Where the official pages cover longer family visits and extensions in the UK, Canada, Australia and Germany. Links only: they decide what applies.
VerifiedVisitor visa pages by country, for families
A map of the official visitor pages for the UK, Canada, Australia and Germany, and what each is for. Links only: we never say what applies to you.
VerifiedWant these as a checklist with dates?
StudentFlow turns the guides into your own visit plan, with a date on every step and your travel date as the anchor.
Free to plan. No card needed. Not legal or immigration advice.