Home Office minister makes statement on eVisas. Extending use of expiring BRPs

Today Seema Malhotra MP the Minister for Migration and Citizenship has made a written statement. For those whose BRP expires at the end of the year, provisions have been put in place for travel:

we have also listened to concerns about the risk to customers who are travelling after 31 December, where their underlying status has not expired. In order to smooth the transition to eVisas, we have decided to allow carriers to accept a BRP or EUSS BRC expiring on or after 31 December 2024 as valid evidence of permission to travel until at least 31 March and this date will be kept under review. Customers travelling in the early part of the year are therefore advised to continue carrying their expired BRP, as this will add to the range of checking options already available to carriers.

Those holders of legacy documents (such as passports containing ink stamps or a vignette sticker) will still be able to prove their rights as they do today, where their legacy documents currently permit them to do so, including for proving the right to rent or for travel to the UK. It should be noted that stamps in expired passports have not been acceptable to prove right to work since 2014.

The position for legacy document holders does not change at the end of the year, but we encourage them to transition to eVisas by making a No Time Limit (NTL) application, to access the significant benefits that eVisas bring to customers.