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Visa Support Letters

If you or your guests require a visa support letter from Imperial College London for Commemoration Day 2024, please read the information below before you complete the Visa Support Letter form.

     - We are unable to provide visa support letters for graduands who are yet to be awarded.
     - We are only able to provide a visa letter if you are eligible to attend Commemoration Day 2024.
       View the eligibility criteria.
     - We are only able to provide visa support letters for graduands who are attending on the day.
     - Graduands can request a visa support letter for themselves and up to four guests.
     - Please ensure you complete Step 1 before applying for a visa support letter.


How to request a visa support letter

The Visa Support Letter form allows you to generate a letter for you and up to two guests. If you need to add further guests, you will need to fill in the form a second time. Please follow the instructions below:

     For yourself and/or up to two guests

     Open the link to the Visa Support Letter form. You will be prompted to enter your CID number and your
     date of birth in the format: CIDNUMBER/DDMMYYYY (e.g. 01234567/24011991)

     For additional guests

     If you require another support letter for up to two additional guests, please use the same form link again
     and when prompted, enter your CID number and your date of birth in the format:
     CIDNUMBER/DDMMYYYY followed by an 'X' (e.g. 01234567/24011991X)

For amendments to the visa support letters, or issues with the form, please email the Graduation Events Team.

For further guidance on requesting visa letters, please see How to apply for a visa to come to the UK and Imperial's International Students Support webpage.

 

 

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We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • display of all content is optimised for all screen sizes
  • Skip to main content / home page links exist
  • Text resizing is possible
  • Colour contrasts meet the minimum requirement of 4.5:1
  • Video captions, transcriptions and audio descriptions are provided
  • Any content types or features that have been optimised to meet accessibility as best as possible, such as accordions, slideshow/carousels, tables and tabs.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

Parts of this website are not fully accessible. For example:

  • some buttons are not correctly identified
  • some error messages are not clearly associated with form controls
  • many older documents in PDF format are not fully accessible

What we do about known issues

We work to achieve and maintain WCAG 2.1 AA standards, but it is not always possible for all our content to be accessible. Where content is not accessible, we will state a reason, warn users and offer alternatives.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Imperial College London Advancement department is committed to making its website accessible in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is partially compliant with the  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1  AA standard, due to the known issues listed below.

Non accessible content

Due to the critical functionality of the form on this site, because it has following accessibility errors, we recommend our visitors who use assistive technology to contact us directly at graduation@imperial.ac.uk with their queries regarding their attendance.

The content that is not accessible on this website is outlined below:

-Form under the Register tab: first two fields of the form are list boxes, on which the user must choose

  1. field 1 “I would like to” user must choose what they would like to do (i.e. request a refund, change registered attendance etc)
  2. field 2 “graduation ceremony registered to” user must choose which graduation ceremony they are registered to.

However, although visible text precedes these list boxes, the text is not programmatically associated with the corresponding list box. Consequently, the list boxes do not have an accessible name. Site visitors who use assistive technologies may not be able to fill in this critical information.

-Form under the Register tab: Confirm and submit button, as a focusable element this button does not have a unique id value. Assistive technologies are likely to act only on the first and ignore the others. As a consequence, both functionality and accessibility can be degraded. We tested the page using NVDA and noticed that the button is recognised by this app.

Some documents and content are  exempt from the regulations (such as live video content and PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services), so we do not currently have any plans to make them accessible. But if you need to access information in one of these document types, you can contact us and ask for an alternative format.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

WCAG 4.1.1 duplicate id The form under Register tab. We plan to fix this by January 2024, and we have already contacted developer to seek solution.

WCAG 4.1.2 aria input field name – first two fields of the form under “register” tab does not have an accessible name. We plan to fix this by January 2024, and we have already contacted developer to seek solution.

WCAG 4.1.1 duplicate id active – “confirm and check out” button on the form does not have a unique id. Therefore, it may be ignored by some assistive technology. We plan to fix this by January 2024, and we have already contacted developer to seek solution.

Disproportionate burden

Not applicable.

Reporting accessibility issues

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille or if you find any accessibility issues not listed on this page then please contact graduation@imperial.ac.uk.

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 7 working days.

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint,  contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

How we test this website

This website was last tested for accessibility compliance on 3/1/2023, and these tests have been carried out internally. We used automated testing on home and Register pages. We used Accessibility insights for Web Google extension, and Wawe, as well as manual testing using NVDA.

Last updated

This statement was prepared on 5/1/2023. It was last updated on 9/1/2023