The UK authorities has lifted the pause on processing customer visas in all nations beforehand on the pink 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 pink listing restrictions over the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
“From 4:00 am on fifteenth December, all nations presently on the pink listing shall be eliminated. Consistent with the lifting of pink listing restrictions, UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) will elevate the pause on processing customer visas in all nations beforehand on the pink listing,” the assertion reads.
“Attributable to extraordinarily excessive international demand, customary UK customer visas are presently taking considerably longer than normal to be processed.
“UKVI are working laborious to course of customer visa purposes as quickly as potential and sincerely apologise to all our prospects affected.
“Non-visitor visa purposes (together with scholar and work visas) are nonetheless being processed inside printed service requirements, and we’re working laborious to satisfy buyer demand.”
The assertion added that candidates shall be contacted by the Visa Software 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 have to journey to the UK for compassionate causes will nonetheless want to use for a visa within the normal means, 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 workers throughout biometric submission,” the federal government added.
It, nonetheless, stated the Precedence Visa (PV) and Tremendous Precedence Visa (SPV) providers stay briefly suspended for all visa routes in all nations, coming off the pink listing.
This, based on the federal government, will enable UKVI to focus on assessing purposes in date order for all visa prospects and deal equitably with the elevated demand.
