UK Border Agency Website Is Redesigned To Make Access Easy

23 Sep 2010

The UK Border Agency has overhauled its website in an attempt to make the UK immigration process less complicated.

The redesigning of the website is an “important first step in the UK Border Agency’s plans to have one integrated website for all its customers in the UK and overseas”.

Currently, UK visa application information can be found across three government websites. The redesign appears to be part of an attempt to integrate all three sites.

Numerous external stakeholders were consulted as part of the project, including Global Visas director Liam Clifford, whose immigration consultancy website receives millions of visits each year.

Clifford applauded the UKBA for taking his company’s lead and aiming to simplify the UK visa application process with the website, which he said took “a number of years” to develop.

“I think it’s a good start… it’s already head and shoulders above most government websites out there,” he said.

The UKBA said the aim of the new website was to “present information more clearly and help you find what you are looking for more easily”.