So are they back to doing biometrics or just using previous ones?
They never stopped doing biometrics.
It’s a mandatory requirement to give biometrics for every single visa application you ever make, including for UK citizenship now.
The reason for this is two-fold:
1. To get an updated photo/fingerprints for your new visa
2. To confirm that you are the same person who applied for each of your previous visas
Once you have submitted your online application and paid for the visa, you will receive an email with a registration code for the UKVCAS website.
You will need to register an account, then book your biometrics (which may cost up to £130, as free appointments are very scarce), and then you have until 48 hours before your appointment to upload all your documents.
When you submit the online application, there may be an option to purchase Super Priority processing for £800. This gives you a visa decision within 24 hours of your biometrics appointment (compared with 6 months standard processing time).
Due to Covid restrictions, they are only allowing a certain number of applicants to use Super Priority per day, so if you want to buy it and it’s not offered when you submit, you’ll need to keep checking each day until it shows up.
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