Resource Type: Digitalisation

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association Working Group on Digitalisation

Home Office Documents | Digitalisation

Home Office Letter Re: Technical Glitches and Outages (21 July 2026)

On 26 June 2026, ILPA wrote to the Home Office regarding the technical glitches and outages experienced with the UKVI/eVisa systems. We received the below response on 21 July 2026.
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Form for accompanying an eVisa (24 June 2026).   

First published.
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8 and 9-year-olds now eligible to use eGates (8 July 2026).

 First published.
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Apply for a visa under the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme (2 July 2026).

Updated to explain when a successful applicant may be issued with a form for accompanying an eVisa (FAV).
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Form for affixing a visa (2 July 2026).

Updated to reflect that forms for affixing a visa were issued up until 30 June 2026.
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Examples of UK visa vignettes (2 July 2026).

Updated to reflect that vignettes are no longer issued from 1 July 2026.
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Cuba: apply for a UK visa (2 July 2026).

Updated to reflect that vignettes are no longer issued to successful applicants from 1 July 2026.
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Living in the UK: applying from overseas (1 July 2026).  

Removed references to vignettes as these are no longer issued from 1 July 2026 and added new information on when you may receive a form for affixing an eVisa (FAV).
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Online immigration status (eVisa): UKVI account creation data (1 July 2026). 

Updated the UKVI account creation data. Added data on eVisa error correction volumes from September 2025.