Immigration bail: digital reporting
Source: gov.uk (2025-09-30)

Guidance on what immigration bail digital reporting (IBDR) is and what to do if you have been given an IBDR condition.

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

We’ll 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

As an additional bail condition, we may ask for you to provide your location following your compliance with digital reporting.

You can do this using your phone or other device.

You need to make sure location services are active for the web browser on your device. You can do this in your device settings.

Where this applies, you will receive a prompt on your device asking for your current location.

If the location request appears on your screen, you should allow your device to share your location. Your location is only taken at the time you comply with your digital reporting.

If you need help to manage location settings, you can check the instructions for your device online.

We ask for this information to support any enforcement action we may undertake if bail conditions are breached, or in an anonymised format to support compliance with UK immigration laws.

We will not access the location data if you comply with your immigration bail conditions and digital reporting, other than in an anonymised format.

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 location data for up to 90 days.

If you don’t acknowledge your IBDR

You may be in breach of your immigration bail conditions If you don’t 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 you’re 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: xxx@xxx.xx (mailto:xxx@xxx.xx).