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985670

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	‘To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many family visit visa applications from non-EEA countries have been declined in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	178385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The family visitor visa has been replaced by the standard visitor visa <a href="https://www.gov.uk/standard-visitor-visa" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/standard-visitor-visa</a></p><p>The information on total entry clearance visitor visas granted is released quarterly as part of the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, available at the .<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOV" target="_blank">GOV</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK" target="_blank">UK</a> website.</p><p>The most recent published visas statistics are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/10/2018 11:44:12 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

1647822

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration entitled An inspection of the Home Office’s processing of family visas, September 2021 to February 2022, published on 18 October 2022, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who fall into irregular status due to the absence of a fee waiver for indefinite leave to remain applications.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	190996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>The number of people who fall into irregular status due to the absence of a fee waiver for indefinite leave to remain applications does not form part of any current transparency data or migration statistics and is not published.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/07/2023 16:22:39 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1538119

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration entitled Inspection report on family visitor visa applications July 2015, published on 16 July 2015, what steps her Department has taken to (a) help increase consistency in processing family visitor visas and (b) ensure that decision notices are balanced and clear.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	75856
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>Since 2015, the Department has undergone a number of significant changes and improvements to help increase consistency in decision making and ensure that visit visa decision notices are balanced and fair.</p><p>The Department has:</p><p>o Moved to thematic visa decision making centres, focussed on specific routes so decision makers are not making decisions on multiple routes during a working day and can build up expertise.</p><p>o Brought in modular training by immigration route which all decision makers must undertake.</p><p>o Refreshed its risk strategy which focusses on the individual attributes of the customer and ensures that they are at the heart of everything it does.</p><p>o Increased the use of technology to help drive consistency and feedback through more detailed data.</p><p>The Department continues to review existing processes and develop new approaches in line with best practice and welcomes reviews of its processes and procedures from independent agencies and external bodies.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/11/2022 13:37:21 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1626226

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to review the minimum income requirement threshold for Family visas.
	tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
	tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
	uin	184207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>We keep all our immigration routes under review.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 15/05/2023 16:07:07 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1171100

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to increase the minimum income requirement for non-European Economic Area family members to secure a visa to join their British or settled spouse or partner in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	3686
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2020 answer text <p>The minimum income requirement was implemented in July 2012 as part of a package of reforms to the family Immigration Rules, and the overall assessment is that it strikes a fair balance between an individual’s right to family life, the economic wellbeing of the UK and the community in general.</p><p>The Supreme Court has upheld the lawfulness of the minimum income requirement, which prevents burdens on the taxpayer and promotes integration, declaring that the policy is neither a breach of the right to respect for private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights nor discriminatory.</p><p>The Immigration Rules are kept under continuous review including the minimum income requirement and adjusted where necessary in light of feedback, impact and the findings of the courts.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/01/2020 13:28:13 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1564610

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has taken recent steps to ensure that family groups are not prevented from entering the UK because one or more family members has not yet been issued with a visa.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	117609
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>UK Visas and Immigration Decision Making Centres process overseas applications for entry clearance in date order from when documents were uploaded, or after customers have provided their biometrics at a visa application centre. Where UK Visa and Immigration Decision Making Centres receive applications from family groups at the same time and the customer includes details of this on their form, UKVI would look to group decisions together so families receive decisions wherever possible at the same time.</p><p>We encourage customers to continue to refer to these updates as our processing times change on a regular basis. The link to this guidance for in country applications is: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fvisa-decision-waiting-times-applications-inside-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKelly.Humphries%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C74a59619230540b4914508daac4514bd%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638011709934849952%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=AxwVcWefBq2iClW%2FyRP9G1oQPdkacB0NpwdAfayHQTQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> and out of country applications is: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fvisa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKelly.Humphries%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C74a59619230540b4914508daac4514bd%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638011709934849952%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=nnr%2FIcP%2Bq1T4JTrA4A71n%2Be6qcRJQmcJal4FqlzvJsI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/01/2023 17:58:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1580619

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the mean average UKVI Family Visa application processing time is.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	132420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>An applicant applying for a family visa at entry clearance should get a decision within 24 weeks.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visa-decision-waiting-times-applications-outside-the-uk#join-family-in-the-uk" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>An applicant applying in the UK to extend a family visa (spouse or partner on a 5-year route to settlement) should get a decision within 8 weeks.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visa-decision-waiting-times-applications-inside-the-uk#switch-to-or-extend-a-family-visa" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>An applicant applying in the UK for settlement should get a decision within 6 months.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visa-decision-waiting-times-applications-inside-the-uk#applying-for-settlement" target="_blank">Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Mean average processing times do not form part of any current transparency data for Spouse/Partner applications and are not published.</p><p>The transparency data does, however, include a range of processing data and the latest data can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fmigration-transparency-data%23uk-visas-and-immigration&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSheffieldFamily.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C68baeb4cb470480dc90608da47a2e699%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637901062213241689%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=pD9T%2Bmx2%2FMyxOHRWsrOirYLvh1pmqYgqjTuQnf%2FAjH0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 31/01/2023 12:47:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1437460

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time is for family visas.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	133265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>Average processing times do not form part of any current transparency data and are not published.</p><p>Information on our immigration routes with service standards and whether they have been processed against these standards is available as part of our transparency data, at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fmigration-transparency-data%23uk-visas-and-immigration&amp;data=04%7C01%7CVandCSheffield.PQandFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C4a113ec6f70b400a841b08d9fd0489bd%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637819018188220753%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=kUEnSvgvSUDNeBSwVb8O87T82D6USvco0mKHJxV5ISI%3D&amp;reserved=0#_blank" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/03/2022 10:11:32 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

674330

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that the family visitor visa application process is clear and comprehensible to people using that process.
	tabling member constituency	Redcar
	tabling member printed	Anna Turley
	uin	60318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office website contains detailed guidance for customers on the process of applying for a visa.</p><p>Customer service is a key priority for UK Visas and Immigration, and the efficiency and effectiveness of the visa application process is kept under regular review, including by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. Feedback from customers and partners assists us in continuously improving the services we offer. For example, during 2016 we rolled out a new and more intuitive online visa application process, Access UK.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 25/04/2017 12:45:26 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

1586827

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to return the processing time for family visa applications made outside the UK from 24 to 12 weeks
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	147064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office had been prioritising Ukraine Visa Schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>The bulk of resource has now returned to the route, along with an additional investment of new staff.</p><p>We are keeping the service standard level under review.</p><p> </p><p>Information on family visa processing times for applications made outside of the UK can be found here: Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p><p>Information on family visa processing times for applications made inside of the UK can be found here: Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 147060 question first answered 23/02/2023 13:02:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady