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What is a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP)?
A BRP is a credit card sized card which shows a person’s status in the UK. for a non-EEA migrant living in the UK for a period longer than six months, and confirms your UK immigration status. This document is for a non-EEA migrants who living in the UK for a period longer than six months.
If you live, study, work or have some businesses in the UK longer than 6 months and you are non EEA national, this document graunated permission for all that things. BRP is just proof of you UK emmigration status.
You’ll get a biometric residence permit (BRP) if you:
You don’t have to apply separately for a BRP. You’ll get one automatically if your visa or immigration application is approved, or you’re replacing an older document.
What’s on your BRP
Your BRP will include:
You may have a National Insurance (NI) number printed on the back of your BRP. Not all BRPs have this - it depends on factors like the date it was issued and your visa status.
Why you need a BRP
You can use your BRP to confirm your:
Guidance
Read the guidance about biometric residence permits if you’re applying from:
Successful applicants will receive a vignette (or sticker) in their passport that will be valid for 30 days, instead of a vignette with the full grant of leave to stay in UK. This will allow the applicant to enter the UK and collect their BRP from a designated post office. The post office and 30 day travel window will be determined using information provided in the application form.
You’ll be asked to provide your fingerprints and photo (‘biometric information’) as part of your visa or immigration application. You need to:
The process takes less than 5 minutes and doesn’t involve any ink or mess. You won’t need to take off your head covering if you wear it for religious or medical reasons.
If you don’t have any fingers you only need to have a digital photo taken of your face. It will be noted on your records that you’re physically unable to provide fingerprints.
What children need to do
Children under 16 must be accompanied by a parent, guardian or someone over 18 who has legal responsibility for them.
Children don’t need to give their signature. They don’t need to give their fingerprints if they’re:
Where to provide your biometric information
Where you give your biometric information depends on how you’re making your visa or immigration application.
If you’re applying from within the UK, go to:
If you’re outside the UK, apply at a visa application centre.
Fee
You must pay £19.20 when you give your biometric information at a Post Office branch. Otherwise the cost is included in your application fee.
How you get your biometric residence permit (BRP) depends on where you made your visa or immigration application.
If you applied from inside the UK
Your BRP will be sent to you by courier. You don’t need to collect it.
If you applied from outside the UK
Collect your BRP once you’re in the UK. You must do this before your vignette expires or within 10 days of arriving in the UK, whichever is later.
Check your decision letter. It will tell you to collect your BRP from either:
You must be over 18 to collect a BRP.
You can get a fine of up to £1,000 if you don’t collect your BRP.
What you’ll need
Bring your passport or travel document with your vignette sticker in when you collect your BRP.
You’ll get your vignette sticker when your visa application is approved. You have permission to come to the UK within 30 days of getting it.
Collecting a child’s BRP
You must be nominated to collect a child’s BRP, even if you’re the child’s parent.
The Home Office will tell you within 5 working days if you’re approved to collect the child’s BRP.
You don’t need to be nominated if you’re also collecting your own BRP and you are named on your child’s vignette sticker.
Collecting your BRP from a different Post Office branch
You can choose to pick up your BRP from a different Post Office branch. You’ll need to arrange this at the branch and pay a fee.
Check that the Post Office branch you want to use offers a ‘BRP collection service’.
If you can’t collect your BRP
You can nominate someone else to collect your BRP if you have a serious illness or disability that prevents you from collecting it.
The person you nominate must have one of the following:
You can get someone to make the nomination for you, for example a legal representative, charity, employer, college or university.
You’ll be told within 5 working days if the person you nominate is approved to collect your BRP.
If you change your mind, you can still collect your BRP yourself or you can nominate a different person. You don’t need to cancel the original nomination.
If you have problems collecting your BRP
Tell the Home Office if you can’t collect your BRP for any reason, for example:
The Home Office will email you within 5 working days to tell you what to do next. It’ll take longer if you don’t give an email address.
You can report online that your biometric residence permit (BRP) hasn’t arrived if:
You’ll need the following information to report a missing BRP:
You can get someone to report a missing BRP for you, for example a legal representative, charity, employer, college or university.
The Home Office will email you within 5 working days to tell you what to do next. It’ll take longer if you don’t give an email address.
Don’t use this service if the courier company (called DX) tried to deliver your BRP and left a card. Contact them to rearrange the delivery.
If there’s a problem with your BRP when it arrives, report it within 10 days. Otherwise you may have to apply and pay for a replacement.
You can report online if your BRP doesn’t arrive.
Mistakes in the length or conditions of your visa
If you applied for your visa from inside the UK, you can ask for an administrative review.
Other problems with your BRP
You can report other problems with your BRP online, for example:
You can get someone to report the problem for you, for example a legal representative, a charity, employer, college or university.
The Home Office will email you within 5 working days to tell you what to do next. It’ll take longer if you don’t give an email address.
You can report your BRP lost or stolen from inside or outside the UK.
You can get someone to use the service for you, for example a legal representative, a charity, employer, college or university.
You need the following to report your BRP lost or stolen:
You won’t be able to use your BRP if you find it after you report it lost or stolen.
The Home Office will contact you within 1 working day.
What happens next
You’ll be told if you need to replace your BRP.
You’ll need to replace your biometric residence permit (BRP) if it’s lost, stolen or damaged and it was valid for at least another 3 months.
How soon you must replace it depends on where it was lost or stolen.
You may also have to replace your BRP if your personal details have changed, for example you’ve changed your name.
You can be fined up to £1,000 and made to leave the UK if you don’t apply for a replacement in time.
If your BRP was lost, stolen or damaged in the UK
You must apply for a replacement BRP within 3 months.
If your BRP was lost, stolen or damaged outside the UK
You can’t apply for a replacement BRP outside the UK.
You’ll need a ‘replacement BRP visa’ which lets you re-enter the UK once only - you must apply online in most countries. It costs £169.
You must apply for a replacement BRP within 1 month of your return to the UK.
Cuba and North Korea
Read the guidance for Cuba or North Korea and apply for a replacement BRP visa.
Apply for a replacement BRP
Apply for a replacement BRP- it costs £56.
You can either:
All BRPs will need to be collected from a designated Post Office within 10 days of arrival in the UK. The vignette affixed in the passport is a temporary document and should not be accepted as proof of entitlement to work, train, study or claim benefits.
If you are abroad, first you have apply for visa UK
After that you will be issued with a 30-day vignette which will appear in your passport.
Then you will to allow to enter the UK and between 30 day time frame collect your BRP.
To collect your BRP in UK go to Post Office
To do that you have 30-days.
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