19 May 2025

Visas & Immigration release notes

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

Features

The Features details the new features in release 2025.05.

Features

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Affected topics

562204, 560261

2025 CAS specification changes available when creating, editing, viewing and exporting CAS

Staff can now create, update, and export CAS to the new 2025 UKVI specification in the Visa sponsorship app. New fields are now available when viewing or editing a CAS in the CAS overview, as well as when creating a CAS using the Create CAS request option. If these fields are populated on a CAS, they will be included in the XML file generated when exporting the CAS. The new fields are as follows:

Agents

Fields on the Student details tab:

  • Student sourced through agent?

  • Agent company name

  • Agent contact family name

  • Agent contact given name

  • Address

  • City or town

  • County, area district, or province

  • Postcode or ZIP code

  • Country

Remote delivery

Fields on the Course details tab:

  • Does the course include remote delivery?

  • Is 21-40% of the course delivered remotely?

Original course start date

Fields on the Course details tab:

  • Is course continuation of previous course?

  • Original course start date

Scholarship

Field on the Accommodation and fees tab:

  • Bursary or scholarship contribution

CAS request

Create CAS request

 

560225

2025 CAS specification changes available in integration APIs

Third-parties can now GET, POST and PUT the following fields to a CAS request. The CAS request APIs now contains the following attributes:

Agents
  • AgentUsed

  • Agent details:

    • CompanyName

    • FamilyName

    • GivenName

    • AddressLine1

    • AddressLine2

    • AddressLine3

    • City

    • CountryAreaDistrict

    • PostCode

    • CountryCode

Remote delivery
  • CourseIsRemoteDelivery

  • IsWithinHigherRemoteDeliveryRange

Original course start date
  • CourseIsContinuation

  • OriginalCourseStartDate

Scholarship
  • BursaryOrScholarshipValue

The attributes are available in both the preview and stable versions.

API catalogue

Bugs

There are no bug fixes in release 2025.05.

Known issues

None