Question follow-through · 10720

Visas: Overseas Visitors

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what system replaced the AI streaming tool used for visit visa applications discontinued in 2020.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 23 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 28 Oct 2024
Answer: 28 Oct 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what system replaced the AI streaming tool used for visit visa applications discontinued in 2020.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Global Visa Risk Streaming (GVRS) system which was operated by UK Visas and Immigration for streaming visit visa applications was discontinued on 3rd August 2020 but did not use Artificial Intelligence (AI). The current workflow routing solution, Comp...

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