Retention Standards for Supporting Documents
Dear Home Office,
The UKVI's new online visa application system allows clients to self-upload supporting documents.
Please let us know the retention standards for the copies/scans of documents submitted--including birth certificates, passports, bank statements and property documents--for settlement and non-settlement visa applications. Please also let us know whether these documents are stored centrally or if each "visa application hub" has its separate storage. Does anybody outside the Home Office--including third party visa application centers--have access to these documents?
Yours faithfully,
Sumsi Timonda
Sumsi Timonda,
Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.
This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 54785). We will aim to send you a full response by 29/08/2019 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you,
P. Zebedee
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