e-Visas: Hostile and Broken | Open Rights Group
The e-Visa will be used to demonstrate someone’s ability to enter the UK, to prove their right to work and to access banking, mortgages and secure housing rental agreements.| Open Rights Group
The e-Visa will be used to demonstrate someone’s ability to enter the UK, to prove their right to work and to access banking, mortgages and secure housing rental agreements.| Open Rights Group
The Problem From 1 January 2025, people who have right to remain in the UK must have an e-Visas to apply for work, apply to use housing and other services, and to re-enter the UK.| Open Rights Group
As someone who is in the UK with leave to remain, I recently tried the new eVisa system for myself and thought it would be useful to share my experience.| Free Movement
What's the problem? Until recently, migrants from outside the EU had physical documents to prove that they and their families could live, work or study in the UK. These could be physical cards or stamps or stickers in their passports. The Home Office wants to replace these physical documents with e-Visas by the end of December 2024. This will affect up to four million people in the UK. This scheme could lead to a digital Windrush scandal, where people who have the right to be in the UK can no...| Open Rights Group
The Migrant Digital Justice programme empowers the migrants’ rights sector to challenge technologies used in immigration.| Open Rights Group
What's the problem? Until recently, migrants from outside the EU had physical documents to prove that they and their families could live, work or study in the UK. These could be physical cards or stamps or stickers in their passports. The Home Office wants to replace these physical documents with e-Visas by the end of December 2024. This will affect four million people in the UK. This scheme could lead to a second Windrush scandal, where people who have the right to be in the UK can no longer...| Open Rights Group
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Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, fighting to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online.| Open Rights Group
