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Visitors to the UK from South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland will now need to get a visa before travelling to the UK. Visitors will now be fingerprinted and checked against watch-lists before being issued with a visa to travel.
New visa requirements have been introduced for people travelling to the UK from South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland.
Visitors from these countries will now be fingerprinted and checked against watch-lists before being issued with a visa to travel.
The new rules have been introduced to counter passport and identity fraud, and follow Britain’s first global review of who needs a visa to come to the UK for a short-term visit.
As well as South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, visitors from Bolivia and Venezuela will now also need a visa to travel to the UK.
Nationals from more than 100 countries now require a visa, and the UK Border Agency has already collected more than four million fingerprints from people applying for visas worldwide.
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