Visa, CAS and immigration support

An eVisa is an online record of your immigration status, you can access your eVisa by creating a UKVI account.

Using an eVisa is completely free and it does not affect your immigration status or the conditions of your stay in the UK.

Create a UKVI account for your eVisa

BRPs are issued with an end date of 31 December 2024 even though your immigration permission goes beyond this date. You will not be issued with a new BRP afterwards and you do not need to contact Home Office to correct this date.

Before your BRP expires, you must create a UKVI account and link your current passport or travel document to your account.

Watch this video guide for more information about how to create a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) account and access your eVisa.

If you do not already have a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) account, you will be asked to:

• create a UKVI account
• confirm your identity using the ‘UK Immigration ID Check' app

This information will be used to link your eVisa to your UKVI account. You'll get an email to let you know when you can access your eVisa in your account.

To create your UKVI account you will need:

• access to a smartphone
• a mobile phone number *
• an email address *
• your Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) card **

Create your UKVI account

* Please make sure you provide a phone number and email address which you can access anytime. You will need them each time you use your eVisa to prove your immigration status.

** If your BRP card has been lost or stolen, you can use your travel document, such as a passport, and your visa application reference number to create your UKVI account. Your visa application number is the global web form (GWF) or unique application number (UAN) from your visa application. You can no longer request a replacement BRP card.

After creating your UKVI account, you will be directed to download the ‘UK Immigration ID Check' app to scan your BRP.

Once the scanning is complete, you will be directed back to confirm the following:

• your BRP or application number
• your location
• contact preferences
• account security questions

When your UKVI account is created, you can log in to link your BRP and current passport to your account.

The linking is not instant, it may take a few days to complete. When your eVisa is ready to view, you will receive an email from Home Office, you can then log in to your UKVI account to access your eVisa.

You can prove your immigration status to others such as landlords or employers by logging in to your UKVI account and generating a share code.

Watch this video on how to prove your immigration status using your eVisa.

You should keep your UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) account updated.

If you have created your UKVI account with your passport, please add your BRP details to your account, and vice versa.

If you have renewed your passport, please make sure you add the new passport details to your account.

You should continue to carry your Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) with you when you travel internationally until it expires.

Keep your expired BRP card as it may help with future applications to stay in the UK. You may also want it for your personal records.

In future, you will be able to use your eVisa to travel to the UK with your valid passport. Before you travel, please login to your UKVI account and check that your passport details are up to date and visa details are correct.

As it may take some time for any updates to be reflected, please leave yourself sufficient time to check these details.

Watch this video to understand how to travel with your eVisa.

If you have a question about creating your UKVI account and getting access to your eVisa, please contact the Home Office about getting access to your eVisa. (Click on the green "Start now" button at the bottom of the page, to access the Home Office chat service.)

Their application will be dealt with under the rules in force at the time they submitted their application.

A research-based higher degree means a postgraduate programme comprising a research component (including a requirement to produce original work) that is larger than any accompanying taught component when measured by student effort. Please refer to the list of research degrees offered at Kingston University.

Students who hold permission for a course of study which the provider has confirmed is a PhD, other doctoral qualification, or a research-based higher degree will be able to bring dependants.

These students will still be able to bring dependants. The course level on the CAS must reflect the exit qualification.

The changes will affect students who are starting their courses from 1 January 2024 onwards.

These changes will not affect dependants of overseas students where the student is already in the UK on their course of study.

Those starting a taught postgraduate course in the autumn will still be able to have dependants join them after January 2024 (where the other requirements of the rules are met).

Dependants that are already in the UK can extend their permission if the main applicant is granted further leave to remain under the Student Route.

The rules around dependant work rights have remained the same.

Family members of a student can work (in line with UK employment law) in the UK except when:

• they are being granted leave as a dependant after previously being the student's dependant when the student had permission to study a full-time course of 6 months or longer and the student is now applying for permission to study a new full-time course that is less than 9 months in length (unless the student is continuing a course of study on which they had previously been granted at least 9 months permission for)
• they are being granted leave as a dependant after previously being the student's dependant when the student had permission to study a full-time course of 6 months or longer and the student is now applying for permission to study a new full-time course below degree level

A person with leave as the dependant partner of a student cannot take employment as a professional sportsperson (including as a sports coach).

There is no change to the Graduate Route. Dependants already in the UK as a student dependant may apply as a dependant of a graduate at the same time as the applicant.