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Regularly check your email and create a UKVI account when invited!
UKVI will be emailing all visa-holders in the coming months, asking them to sign up and create a UKVI account to get access to their eVisa. If you haven't been invited yet, you can’t create an account.
If you have already received an invitation email from the UKVI ask you to create a UKVI account, please follow the instruction in the email before you current BRP expires. If you have permission to stay in the UK, once you’ve created your UKVI account you will be able to sign in to the view and prove service to access your eVisa.
The University is not involved in this process, so we can’t provide a specific timeframe for when you might hear from UKVI. We have been advised that the transition from BRPs to eVisas for current holders is expected to take several months so you may not hear anything for a while. It’s a phased process, so others may receive invitations to register their accounts before you. This isn't cause for concern.
You can sign up for updates about eVisas on the GOV.UK website.
The email should come from the email address: donotreply.evisadirectmail@notifications.service.gov.uk and contain the following (or similar) instructions:
We are contacting you because your BRP will expire on 31 December 2024. To prove your immigration status after this date you will need to replace your BRP with an eVisa. The expiration of your BRP card does not affect your immigration status. However, starting in 2025, the way you prove your immigration status will change.
If you require some instruction to create a UKVI account, UKVI published a video on
How to create a UKVI account, which provides you with step-by-step instructions.
If you hold another type of physical document proving your immigration status (for e.g. a stamp or vignette in your passport), please refer to the
Government’s eVisa page to see how the changes may impact you.
No, if you already have an eVisa, you do not need to take any action.
No, if you already have an eVisa, you do not need to take any action.
No. You should continue to use your BRP card until 31 December 2024. After this date, you will be able to use an eVisa to travel to the UK and you will not need carry a physical document, except for your current passport, which must be registered to your UKVI account.
You will not be issued with an eVisa, which means you will have no way to prove your immigration status if you leave the UK and wish to re-enter after 31 December 2024.
Yes! You must contact us as soon as you can access your eVisa.
You will need to generate a a share code so we can verify your immigration status online - please select 'other' as the reason when generating the share code. The code should begin with the letter ‘S’, if it does not, you will need to obtain a new code.