09 June 2025

Admissions release notes

The release notes detail the features, bugs, and known issues in release 2025.05.

Updates

The table Updates details changes made to release 2025.05 after 04 June 2025.

Updates

Reference

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Business impact

Affected topics

550874

User, and date and time available in application notes

Admissions officers can now view who and when an application note was added or updated on the Notes tab in the applicant overview.

Notes

547018

Applicant qualification duration in months

Admissions officers can now add up to 999 months for the Duration in months on an applicant's qualification. This is available when adding or editing an applicant qualification on the Education and experience tab in the applicant overview. This has also been updated in the preview version of the GET, POST, PUT applicant integration APIs.

Not applicable

570363

Access a CAS from an application

Staff can now access the CAS of an application in the Visa sponsorship app via an application. A View CAS request button now shows in the CAS request status tile when a CAS exists for the application. Viewing a CAS request opens the CAS in the Visa sponsorship app. Staff must have the permission UK Visa sponsorship - View in the Immigration area to view CAS requests.

What are CAS requests?

Features

The new features in release 2025.05 are as follows:

Desks – Applications list

Reference

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Business impact

Affected topics

275643

View and filter by CAS request in a desk folder

Staff can now view the CAS requeststatus of an application in the applications list of a desk. The column CAS request status and have been added to applications list. The CAS request status can also be used in advanced filters.

If an application has multiple CAS request records, the status of the latest record is shown.

Not applicable

Task email notifications

Reference

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Business impact

Affected topics

511426

Task email notification

Applicants now receive email notification for all new types of tasks, including:

  • Document tasks, such as upload a passport

  • External tasks, such as pay a deposit on an external website

  • Native forms, such as provide referee details

A new task notification communication template includes a list of all outstanding tasks. Applicants will only receive one email with all the tasks created within a 10 minute window.

Attention.

Emails include information about the applicant's name and associated programmes. This data might be considered personal-identifiable information in some contexts.

What are communication templates?

API catalogue

Reference

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Business impact

Affected topics

526316

Updated Admissions categories in API catalogue

The product categories for Admissions in the API catalogue have been updated as detailed below.

Application

Application data, including clearance checks and documents.

Curriculum

What applicants apply to and study, including entry points and modules.

External reference

Standard reference data such as countries and schools.

Finance

Fee, fundability, and sponsorship data.

Organisation

The structure of your organisation and organisations involved in Admissions.

Person

Information about people including user setup, consent, disability and staff records.

Process

Concepts that describe your Admissions processes, including desks, folders and tags.

Qualification and decision

The qualifications of your applicants and the decisions

General reference data

Reference data not otherwise listed.

The endpoints in the catalogue are unchanged, but they are now be accessible from the above categories.

API catalogue

Bugs

There are no bug fixes in release 2025.05.

Known issues

None