Subject: Your Visa Application: GWF123456789
From：NoReply.UKVisaDecisions<[email protected]>
Date：2025 23 January 11:07
To：[email protected]
UK Visas & Immigration
Vulcan House
4-6 Millsands
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S3 8NU
Tel 0300 790 6268
Web www.gov.uk/uk-visas-immigration
03 Feb 2025
Dear Name
Ref: GWF123456789
Your application for a United Kingdom (UK) visa (vignette) has been successful.
This notice is not permission to travel to the UK.
You have been granted entry clearance to the UK as STUDENT (S) from 31 Jan 2025 until 31 May 2027.
What this means for you
Before you can travel to the UK, you will need to collect your visa and travel document from the visa application
centre, or if you have purchased a courier return service, wait until you have received your visa and travel
document. Please do not attempt to travel to the UK until you have your visa.
If you are collecting your visa, we will contact you when your visa is ready to collect from the visa application
centre where you submitted your application.
Please do not visit the visa application centre until you are contacted.
When you receive your visa and travel document, you must check that the details on your visa are correct before
you travel. If you think the details are incorrect, please contact us before you travel by going to
https://www.gov.uk/contact-ukvi-inside-outside-uk.
You have now been granted permission to stay; your passport/travel document contains a short-term entry
clearance visa, which allows you to travel to the UK. This visa is valid for 90 days. If you do not travel to the UK
before your 90-day visa expires you will need to apply and pay to transfer your visa. You can find out more about
transferring a visa and make an application on https://www.gov.uk/transfer-visa.
If you have been granted settlement in the UK (also known as indefinite leave to enter), the ‘valid until’ date on
your visa (and this notice) represents the expiry date of your passport and does not indicate an expiry of
‘settlement’.
We no longer provide BRPs to show your permission to be in the UK. Instead, you can now access your eVisa and
prove your immigration status (your permission to stay or settlement in the UK) via a UKVI account. Information on
how to do this is in the ‘next steps’ section.
Yours sincerely
UK Visas & Immigration, Home Office
Sheffield Decision Making Centre
Your personal information
The Data Protection Act 2018 governs how we use personal data. For details of how we will use your personal
information and who we may share it with please see our Privacy Notice for the Border, Immigration and
Citizenship system at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-information-use-in-
bordersimmigration-and-citizenship. This also explains your key rights under the Act, how you can access your
personal information and how to complain if you have concerns.
Next steps
What you need to do now
You may already have a UKVI account. If you do you can access your eVisa here https://www.gov.uk/view-
prove-immigration-status.
If you do not yet have a UKVI account you will need to create one.
Information on how to create a UKVI account is available at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/online-immigrationstatus-
evisa.
If you are not able to create your UKVI account before you arrive in the UK, you can follow these steps to create
one once you are in the UK.
Use the following link to create a UKVI account: https://www.gov.uk/get-access-evisa.
To create a UKVI account and access your eVisa you will need:
Your date of birth
Your Global Web reference (GWF) at the top of this notice
Your passport
Access to an email address and phone number
Access to a smartphone
Once you have created your UKVI account, you will be able to view the details of your eVisa online, for example
your type of permission, when it expires and your conditions of stay. If you think the details within your eVisa are
incorrect go to https://www.gov.uk/report-error-evisa.
You will also be able to check and update your personal details and register your passport in your UKVI account so
that you can easily travel to and from the UK.
To get help with your UKVI account or guidance about how to access your eVisa go to
https://ukimmigrationsupport-webchat.homeoffice.gov.uk/evisa.
We cannot give advice on individual applications when you contact us.
Sharing information about your permission to stay/settlement in the UK (your immigration status)
Employers, landlords in England or other organisations may need to check your immigration status, for example, to
check whether you are allowed to work, rent somewhere to live or access public services.
Once you have created your UKVI account and accessed your eVisa, you can use the View and Prove service at
https://www.gov.uk/view-prove-immigration-status using your UKVI account sign in details to share your
immigration status information with employers, landlords and other organisations.
You will need to make sure that you select the correct reason for sharing your information, so that the appropriate
details are selected. You will then be given a ‘share code’. This can be passed on to the person you want to share
your status information with. The share code will give that person time limited access to the relevant information.
You’ll also need to give them your date of birth, so they can prove they have your permission to check your
information.
When accessing services provided by UK government departments and other public authorities, like benefits and
healthcare, we will increasingly make the relevant information about your immigration status available
automatically. For more information go to https://www.gov.uk/guidance/living-in-the-uk-applying-from-within-theuk.
Travelling out of the UK
Once you have created your UKVI account and accessed your eVisa, it is important that your UKVI account has up
to date details of your passport, which you can do at https://www.gov.uk/update-uk-visas-immigration-
accountdetails.
Always give yourself plenty of time to check both your personal details are up to date and your eVisa information is
correct before traveling. Not doing so may mean that you are delayed or denied boarding by carriers.
When your permission to stay ends
If you have not been granted settlement and want to stay in the UK after your current permission ends you must
make a new application for permission to stay before your current permission ends. We recommend you apply no
more than 28 days before your current permission ends.
Details of how to do this can be found on the GOV.UK website.
Routes to settlement in the UK
Where you have been granted 33 months entry clearance under Appendix FM, the endorsement on your vignette
will tell you the basis on which you have been granted permission under the Rules. That will also help you to
identify when you are likely to be able to apply for settlement (assuming that you continue to meet the relevant
requirements):
Standard endorsement
Where the endorsement on your vignette includes the phrase ‘standard’ it means that you are currently on a 5year
route to settlement.
If you continue to meet the requirements and make the appropriate applications for further permission to stay, you
are likely to be eligible to apply for settlement in 5 years.
Non-standard endorsement
Where the endorsement on your vignette includes the phrase:
(Non-Standard 1) – because you satisfy the requirements of paragraph GEN.3.1. of Appendix FM; or
(Non-Standard 2) – because you satisfy the requirements of paragraph GEN.3.2. of Appendix FM; it
means that you are currently on a 10-year route to settlement.
If you continue to meet the requirements and make the appropriate applications for further permission to stay, you
are likely to be eligible to apply for settlement in 10 years.
If you are later able to meet the requirements and make an appropriate application, you can switch to start a 5year
route. However, time spent on the 10-year route will not be counted towards it.
Further guidance on routes to settlement under Appendix FM can be found at: Family of people settled or coming
to settle (immigration staff guidance) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please do not reply to this email address. This email address is not monitored and your message will
not be read. If you wish to contact UK Visas and Immigration about your application, please visit
https://gov.uk/contact-ukvi-inside-outside-uk
