Hi everyone,
With the UK government transitioning to a digital immigration status system (eVisa) by 2025, I’m curious if anyone knows whether there will be an API available to integrate with this new system?
If there is an ongoing project or any plans for such an API, it would be great to know more about it especially regarding timelines, accessibility, and potential integration details.
Thank you 
Not an official first-party one, but companies like Vouchsafe are now offering them, which might be what you need
Let me reveal a secret, all companies that offer the “API for eVisa” are basically crawling the eVisa webpage and sending it as JSON file. Is It illegal? well yes, but the Home Office is allowing it until they release the API.
I wouldn’t call it illegal by default. If the information is publicly accessible on an open web page without login, authentication, bypassing technical controls, or scraping personal data beyond what the user is authorized to access, then crawling it and transforming it into JSON is not automatically unlawful.
The real questions are whether it violates the website’s terms, rate limits, data protection rules, or any anti-circumvention controls. That’s very different from saying “it’s illegal.”