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DARK SECRETS: Uk delays full shift to digital immigration system amid evisa flaws - The Real Truth

eVisa United Kingdom Home Office Seema Malhotra Immigration European Union

UK Border control at Heathrow airport — The Home Office is setting up a 24-hour helpline for airlines struggling to identify documents over the new year. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Passengers will be allowed to use expired identity documents to travel to the UK because of flaws in the eVisa system, a minister has told the Guardian.

Seema Malhotra, the migration and citizenship minister, said the government had postponed a planned full shift to the new digital immigration system amid “real fear” of another Windrush-style scandal among minority communities.

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