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The Home Office uses immigration bail digital reporting (IBDR) to allow people to acknowledge bail conditions using either email or mobile phone messaging. This digital reporting condition may be in addition to your current bail conditions, or it may replace your current bail conditions.

If you have been given an IBDR condition

Well contact you either by email or mobile phone messaging if you are subject to IBDR conditions. You must acknowledge this by following the instructions you will be given within the message sent.

Any IBDR contact must be responded to by you, and not by anyone on your behalf including legal representatives and immigration advisers, unless you have been instructed to respond as a family unit.

We may also ask you to attend one of our reporting centres as part of our process of maintaining contact with you.

Location data

The digital reporting system may request your consent to record the location of your device when you comply with your digital reporting immigration bail condition.

You will be asked to consent to this location data being recorded when you click the button to comply with your digital reporting condition. This request may appear differently depending on the device you use.

If you do not consent this does not affect your compliance with your immigration bail condition(s).

If you do consent, we will store the GPS location of the device only at the time you comply with your bail conditions (by clicking the button within the messages).

We will only access any location data stored in the event that you breach one or more of your immigration bail conditions.

Whilst you are compliant with digital reporting and other immigration bail conditions, we will not access the location data.

If we do access the location data, following a breach of your digital reporting or other immigration bail conditions, we may use it in conjunction with other information relating to your circumstances. This information will help inform any further actions we may take in relation to your immigration status in the UK, including enforcement action.

We will only store any location data you consent to, for up to 90 days.

If you dont acknowledge your IBDR

You may be in breach of your immigration bail conditions If you dont acknowledge your IBDR and any reminders we send after.

We may need to change your immigration bail conditions and ask you to attend one of our reporting centres.

Cookies

The immigration bail digital reporting system uses essential cookies. These cookies are required to ensure there is no abuse of digital reporting, for example, to notify us if one device is used to comply for multiple people, or to identify people who have breached their immigration bail conditions.

Updating your contact details

Once youre registered onto IBDR, you will be able to change your contact details online.

If you have a technical issue with your IBDR

If you have IBDR as a bail condition and are encountering any technical issues, please email: hoimmigrationbaildigitalreporting@homeoffice.gov.uk.