Category: UKVI Documents

All documents produced by UKVI

Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for UK visa applicants and temporary UK residents (24 August 2020)

Visa application centres reopening and other updates.

Updated list of approved English language tests (13 August 2020)

Updated.

Workflow routing: visitor, short-term student and overseas domestic worker (12 August 2020)

First published. The Home Office have suspended their “visa streaming” algorithm after a legal challenge was launched by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and digital rights group Foxglove.

Email update from the NASF Secretariat on delivering the first Community Engagement Pilot, Action Access (28 August 2020)

Please see below an update from the NASF Secretariat. From: NASF SecretariatSent: 28 August 2020 12:50Cc: NASF SecretariatSubject: NatCen Evaluation of the Community Engagement Pilots Good afternoon NASF sub-group members Please see attached document and message below from UKVI Strategy and Planning. The Home Office have been working with UNHCR on delivering the first Community […]

Immigration Enforcement update on the current use of Yarl’s Wood IRC (26 August 2020)

We have received the following from Immigration Enforcement: From: Detention & Escorting External Correspondence Sent: 25 August 2020 20:42Subject: Immigration Enforcement update on the current use of Yarl’s Wood IRC Interested Party, Please find attached, a letter from the Head of Detention an Escorting Services, Phil Riley, setting out the current use of Yarl’s Wood […]

UKVI Stakeholder Update on Biometric Reuse and IDV App (25 August 2020)

Please see below from UKVI V & C Stakeholder Engagement. Please note the factsheet was previously circulated to members last week. From: V & C Stakeholder EngagementSent: 24 August 2020 16:56Subject: Biometric Reuse and IDV App Stakeholder Telecon Update Good afternoon,   Thank you for joining our UKVI Stakeholder Update on Biometric Reuse and IDV […]

Email update from Subject Access Request Unit (25 August 2020)

Please see below an update from the Subject Access Request Unit. From: Lynch, MichelleSent: 18 August 2020 17:00To: Charles Bishop; Nicole Francis Cc: Simm Anthony Subject: RE: SARs and Covid-19 Dear Charles and Nicole I hope you are both well? Just a few lines to say that we are planning what are return may look […]

Court Letter for Home Office charter flight to Spain on 3 September 2020 (25 August 2020)

Please see below from the OSCU: Dear Charles and Sonia Please find attached a letter provided today to the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the Upper Tribunal (IAC), regarding the Home Office’s upcoming charter flight to Spain on 3 September 2020. In light of the ongoing situation caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19), the […]

UKVI Future Immigration System Equality Impact Assessment engagement document (25 August 2020)

UKVI are seeking ILPA members’ input on the Equality Impact Assessment document for the Future Immigration System in advance of a meeting. The EIA was published in July and can be found here along with a document setting out some of UKVI’s main questions. If members have any input they wish to share on this […]