Can visa progress be accelerated?

Someone asked: Can the visa progress be accelerated? Below, I will introduce you to the UK visa as an example. When UKBA has not become UKVI, the progress of British visa can be checked online. As long as there is a receipt, you can check your visa progress on the official website at any time. Has it been sent from the visa center? Has it been sent back? Where is the visa center? When will it be sent to me? For those children with obsessive-compulsive disorder and strong control, the function of checking visa progress online is simply indispensable!

Yes !Yes! In May this year, the British Home Office closed UKBA, and immigration and visa matters were also responsible for the new UKVI. After the UKBA website was revised into UKVI, the most painful thing is that the online query function has been removed! After submitting the application, you can no longer log in to the query system from time to time to track the progress. The only thing you can do is to wait for the email!

In fact, there are still ways to check the visa progress. Although it is not as convenient and instant as in the UKBA era, today I have compiled all the current query methods that can be used to check the visa progress. Friends who are easily impatient, please save it properly. Ah!

Note: The following contact persons for checking the progress or urging visas are all UKVI. It is useless to call the visa center!

　1. Email reminder

Generally speaking, if the applicant does not actively track the progress, UKVI and the visa center will send email reminders at several key points:

1) Confirm submission of application

2) Result notification (please note that this email notification will only tell you that the result has been released, but does not indicate whether your application was approved or rejected)

3) Then you will receive a message from the visa center A letter informing you that the documents have been sent

It is not difficult to find that there is very little information that can be obtained through email notifications! If you want to proactively learn about the visa progress, you must contact UKVI. Compared with the UKBA period, UKVI now provides fewer contact methods. In addition to email reminders, Chinese applicants can only check the progress or urge applications through the following methods.

　2. Telephone

UKVI has a special hotline to check the visa progress, but this service is charged! In addition to the normal call charges, an additional fee of 1.37 pounds per minute is required. There is a service fee, and only credit card payment is accepted. Please have your credit card ready before calling! This service supports English, Chinese, and Cantonese.

1) If you are in China, you can dial the following four numbers:

0086-10-84181724

0086-755-86243860

0044-1243218 100 (British number, if you think it is safer to call the UK directly since you have a British visa)

Working hours: Beijing time 8:00-16:00

2) If you are in the UK, please call

0300123 2241

Working hours: Monday to Thursday 9:00- 16:45, Friday 9:00-16:30

3. Email

Visit the above URL, select China from the drop-down menu, and the following page will appear. After sending it, It is said that you will receive a reply within one day:

　4. Complaint

This should be the last act of grief and indignation. If it’s not that the email/phone service is terrible, or you’ve been waiting for months with no response, I suggest you don’t give it a try. Because writing a complaint letter itself is a highly technical matter and requires you to have clear logic and strong arguments!

If you still don’t understand anything about visa inquiries and visa reminders , then contact us!