{"id":73398,"date":"2016-08-19T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9d76c79bbc7fc4aa119a0c3acdebdaf7"},"modified":"2016-08-19T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:00:23","slug":"news-story-new-digital-visa-application-service-now-available-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73398","title":{"rendered":"News story: New digital visa application service now available worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>In 2014 the Home Office introduced a new digital application service for customers in China to apply for visitor visas online.<\/p>\n<p>Following its successful launch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/apply-uk-visa\">Access UK<\/a> has now been made available for customers applying to visit the UK in over 180 countries and 10 languages. Over half a million visitor visa applications have been received so far by the new service.<\/p>\n<p>Access UK means visa customers can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make quicker visa applications using an intuitive online form<\/li>\n<li>use easy-to-follow checklists and steps which list the documents required to make an application<\/li>\n<li>apply flexibly using any mobile device<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=blaKH6qarBM\">Access UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simon Peachey, UK Visas and Immigration\u2019s Director of International Visa Operations, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m delighted to report that this global roll-out has been achieved on time and without compromising on the quality of the service.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The service will be rolled out to a further 13 lower volume locations over the coming weeks. Locations such as the Falkland Islands have unique application processes and are not yet able to use Access UK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/apply-uk-visa\">Access UK<\/a> will replace the Visa4UK website, as part of the Home Office\u2019s commitment to making it more convenient, quicker and easier for customers to apply for visas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global roll out of the Home Office\u2019s Access UK visit visa service is now complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}