UK Visas

The UK is now providing visit visas to travellers from India within 15 days of receiving applications, British High Commissioner Alex Ellis said on Friday. At the same time, he said a small number of trickier cases take longer time. "Two months ago, I said that our aim was by the end of the year to be turning around visit visas from India to the UK within our standard time of 15 working days. The great news is that the team has now achieved it through fantastic work here in Delhi and across the whole visa network," Ellis said in a short video clip that he posted on Twitter. "There are still a few cases which take longer, the very complex ones and that's right that they do," he added. The high commissioner described quicker visa processing as "good news". "You can of course use the priority visa channel if you still want. We are turning that around within five days. And finally we have a big intake of student visas for the student session starting in January of next year," he said.

In October, British High Commissioner to India Alex Ellis had said that they were on track to get back to processing India-to-UK visa application within standard 15 of days

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday said that the Union Home Ministry has given an assurance to resolve the issue of the United Kingdom visas as soon as possible

Claiming that the coastal state will face loss of Rs 500 cr if tourists from UK don't visit, Goa Forward Party President and MLA Vijai Sardesai has appealed to the BJP govt to relax visa conditions

Steep airfares, congested terminals among other challenges for travellers

The British prime minister's trip comes just weeks after Foreign Secretary Liz Truss visited New Delhi in a bid to convince the Modi government to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine

UK is planning to relax immigration rules by offering cheaper and easier visas for Indian tourists, students and professionals, in an attempt to clinch a trade deal with India, a media report said

London tops European rankings for such companies, according to an index compiled by real estate broker Savills

Figures show that 261,000 more non-EU citizens from countries like India came to the UK, the highest since 2004

Some Indians are also among the nationalities affected by the 18,600-pound a year earning criteria

Changes will apply to all applicants making an email enquiry about visa application from outside UK

Some jobs in the health and education sectors are exempted from higher threshold until July 2019