When Proof Fails: eVisa Repair and Everyday Bordering
Ruohan Xu
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Source: Crossref
Published: Oct 4, 2026
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10699295/v1
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Abstract The United Kingdom’s transition to eVisas relocates immigration-status proof from physical documents to a live digital chain of record, access, third-party verification, and repair. This article examines what happens when ordinary proof fails before a time-sensitive transaction is complete. Using bounded qualitative document analysis and cross-domain institutional comparison, it analyses eight core and four supporting Home Office/UKVI sources and the published eVisa correction series for September 2025–May 2026. The series records 64,778 corrected errors, but it cannot establish a population failure rate or the frequency of material harm. The analysis identifies a narrower institutional problem: correcting the authoritative record and maintaining usable proof while correction is pending are distinct tasks. It develops three evaluative dimensions of rights continuity—availability, recognisability, and timeliness—while separating features observable in official documents from outcomes requiring case-level evidence. Repair is therefore conceptualised as a temporal and organisational dimension of everyday bordering, and rights continuity as a bounded framework for empirical research and policy evaluation.
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