03 November 2025

What's new in Visas & Immigration?

The October 2025 (2025.10) release enables visa sponsorship staff to record student activity required by UKVI to ensure compliance with immigration rules.

CAS requests with the status Used, Withdrawn, Expired, Obsolete, and Cancelled now have an Activities tab. This tab details any existing activities and enables staff to add student activities that must be reported to UKVI as follows:

  • Change in student circumstances

  • Doctorate extension scheme

  • Previous notification withdrawn

  • Sponsorship withdrawn

  • Student is delayed

For activities with reasons, such as a change in student circumstances, the reasons are selected from values of non-editable reference data and correspond to UKVI reportable reasons. Each activity records the person that added the activity, and the date and time UKVI was notified. This feature can also be used to ensure information reported to UKVI can be recorded internally.

The video CAS activities shows a CAS request with an existing activity and a new activity being added.

CAS activities