Question follow-through · 15624

Visas: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to issue any physical documents as part of the rollout of e-Visas.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 21 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 25 Nov 2024
Answer: 28 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

21 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to issue any physical documents as part of the rollout of e-Visas.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2024
Answer published
We have taken a number of steps to support people with the rollout and transition to eVisas.We are running targeted communications to raise awareness of the decommissioning of physical immigration documents and our move to eVisas, and to encourage people ...

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