The UK authorities has lifted the pause on processing customer visas in all nations beforehand on the purple listing, together with Nigeria.
The UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), which introduced this in a press release on Wednesday, stated it lifted the pause as a result of elimination of Nigeria and different nations from purple listing restrictions over the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
“From 4:00 am on fifteenth December, all nations at present on the purple listing will probably be eliminated. Consistent with the lifting of purple listing restrictions, UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) will raise the pause on processing customer visas in all nations beforehand on the purple listing,” the assertion reads.
“Attributable to extraordinarily excessive international demand, commonplace UK customer visas are at present taking considerably longer than traditional to be processed.
“UKVI are working laborious to course of customer visa purposes as quickly as potential and sincerely apologise to all our clients affected.
“Non-visitor visa purposes (together with pupil and work visas) are nonetheless being processed inside revealed service requirements, and we’re working laborious to satisfy buyer demand.”
The assertion added that candidates will probably be contacted by the Visa Utility Centre (VAC) when their passports are prepared for assortment.
“They need to not go to the VAC till they’ve been invited to take action,” it added. These with an pressing must journey to the UK for compassionate causes will nonetheless want to use for a visa within the traditional approach, together with submitting biometrics at a VAC.
“Candidates ought to clearly clarify the compelling or compassionate causes for the go to of their utility kind and should alert the VAC employees throughout biometric submission,” the federal government added.
It, nonetheless, stated the Precedence Visa (PV) and Tremendous Precedence Visa (SPV) companies stay quickly suspended for all visa routes in all nations, coming off the purple listing.
This, in accordance with the federal government, will enable UKVI to focus on assessing purposes in date order for all visa clients and deal equitably with the elevated demand.