Question follow-through · 3793

Biometric Residence Permits

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to publicise the ending of Biometric Residential Permits and transition to e-visas.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 2 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 4 Sept 2024
Answer: 10 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

2 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to publicise the ending of Biometric Residential Permits and transition to e-visas.
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Home Office is delivering a substantial communications and engagement campaign to advise customers of the transition to eVisas and the need for BRP holding customers to register for a UKVI account by the end of 2024, if they were not automatically pro...

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