New Delhi: British High Commissioner Alex Ellis on Friday said that the UK is now providing visit visas to travellers from India within 15 days of receiving applications. At the same time, he said a small number of trickier cases take longer time.

The British High Commissioner in his video message clip in Twitter said 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.

There are still a few cases which take longer, the very complex ones and that’s right that they do, he added. 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.

He also urged the Indian students wanting to pursue studies in the UK to apply for visas soon. Please apply as quickly as you can because there is a lot of demand and for everyone applying for visas make sure that you provide the right information, he added.