eVisa ‘grace period’ allowing travel with an expired biometric residence permit extended to 1 June 2025

Following the announcement in December 2024 that people would be able to use expired biometric residence permits for travel until the end of March, the Minister for Migration and Citizenship has announced an extension:

This allows people with a biometric residence permit (BRP) or EUSS biometric residence card (BRC) that expired on or after 31 December 2024, and who continue to hold underlying immigration status, to continue to use their expired document for international travel up to and including 1 June 2025.

From the 2 June 2025, expired BRPs and EUSS BRCs will no longer be acceptable evidence of immigration status when travelling to the UK.

The announcement also said that the Home Office estimates that there are still 600,000 people who need to set up access to their eVisa. Updated data on eVisa account creations was also published last week, although the minister’s announcement noted that:

A number of people who created a UKVI account already had one created as part of their visa application, and therefore now have 2 UKVI accounts – although only one eVisa. This should not cause issues for those people, but it does mean that the published data includes a number of duplicate accounts.

As ever, please keep using the reporting tool set up by the3million and ILPA for any issues experienced with eVisas.