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1655870

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	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 is taking steps to support applicants with a non-serious criminal record for a visa to live in the UK permanently.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	195977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>This Government does not provide support to foreign nationals with criminal records in order to facilitate their entry, stay or settlement in the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/09/2023 16:41:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1135810

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the number of families whose visa applications have been rejected due to the minimum income requirement.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	271394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The reasons for refusing a visa application are not held in a reportable field in our visa case-working system and to provide a report could only be achieved at disproprtinate cost by examination of thousands of individual case files.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 08/07/2019 14:00:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1329529

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adopting the proposals on visa renewal processes recommended by the report entitled We Are Here: Routes To Regularisation For The UK’s Undocumented Population, published by The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in April 2021.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	10287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office is committed to improving how we meet the differing needs of the public we serve, including by ensuring our systems and processes become as simple and straightforward as possible. All our fees are kept under review and we offer several fee waivers and exceptions from the need to pay an application fee.</p><p>Given a person’s circumstances can change, we believe we have the right balance between the length of visas we issue and the need to check people still meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules. In addition, many visas are already aligned to a person’s employment or their course of study and a renewal does not need to happen until a major change in their circumstances.</p><p>We are currently analysing responses to the consultation on the new plan for immigration and will be responding in full.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 14/06/2021 15:08:42 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1490602

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	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 her Department's decision to extend the standard processing times for family visas to 24 weeks, what consultation her Department undertook prior to making that decision; and what assessment her Department has made of the impact of that decision on people awaiting visa decisions, particularly in respect of their right to family life.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	39837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The 24-week service standard is based on expected processing times due to the increased number of outstanding family visa applications. This increase was due to the prioritisation of Ukraine Visa Schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>Staff from other government departments, including DWP and HMRC, have been surged into the department to help with Ukraine work and enable normal visa routes to return to normal service levels in due course. Applicants were informed of the change to a 24-week service standard on 11 May 2022 and the department is currently operating within this.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is aware of potential impacts of applicants awaiting visa decisions. Requests to expedite spousal visa applications where there are compelling or compassionate circumstances are considered on a case-by-case basis and take a range of factors into consideration.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/09/2022 09:36:22 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1167510

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people submitted visa applications using the Super Priority visa service in the last complete financial year for which information is available; and how many of those applicants who were eligible received a visa within the 24-hour period guaranteed by that service.
	tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
	tabling member printed	Sir Alan Campbell
	uin	7652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish the information requested.</p><p>Available information on<strong> visa</strong>s and service standards can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 04/11/2019 17:00:11 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

1173586

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	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 her Department's White Paper of December 2018, The UK’s future skills-based immigration system, Cm 9722, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the length of the low-skilled visa from 12 months to 24 months.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	8272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government commissioned the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to advise on salary thresholds and how points could be awarded to prospective migrants under a new points-based immigration system. The MAC published its report on 28 January and the Government will consider carefully their findings and recommendations before setting out further detail in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 8273 question first answered 04/02/2020 15:51:49 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1173587

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	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 her Department's White Paper of December 2018, The UK’s future skills-based immigration system, Cm 9722, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reducing the length of the cooling-off period applicable to low-skilled visas as set out in that paper.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	8273
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government commissioned the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to advise on salary thresholds and how points could be awarded to prospective migrants under a new points-based immigration system. The MAC published its report on 28 January and the Government will consider carefully their findings and recommendations before setting out further detail in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 8272 question first answered 04/02/2020 15:51:49 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1329016

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce a system to enable visa applications, which were submitted when the priority service was not available, to be upgraded to the priority service for faster processing.
	tabling member constituency	St Albans
	tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
	uin	8744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2021 answer text <p>There are no plans to introduce any system to allow customers to upgrade to the priority service if this was not available at the time the visa application was made.</p><p>Should there be compelling or compassionate grounds for a faster decision to be made the customer should inform UKVI.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/06/2021 16:09:07 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1198933

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to extend the automatic visa renewal to people who are working on a dependent visa.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	52446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>The automatic visa extension offer for key frontline health workers, applies to anyone subject to UK immigration control, who works in one of the defined eligible occupations, and whose visa expires between 31 March and 1 October. It also covers immediate family members of those who are eligible.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 09/06/2020 13:07:12 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1689220

	registered interest
	date	16/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department invited representations from stakeholders before introducing the proposed changes to the minimum income requirement threshold for (a) skilled worker and (b) spousal visas.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	14147
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>From 11 April 2024, we will raise the minimum income threshold for Family visas to £29,000, that is the 25<sup>th</sup> percentile of earnings for jobs which are eligible for Skilled Worker visas. We will incrementally increase the threshold, moving to the 40<sup>th</sup> percentile (currently £34,500), and finally to the 50<sup>th</sup> percentile (currently £38,700, and the level at which the General Skilled Worker threshold is set) by early 2025.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will publish an Equality Impact Assessment on this change in due course.</p><p> </p><p>A fact sheet and an impact assessment can be found on GOV.UK at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fact-sheet-on-net-migration-measures-further-detail" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fact-sheet-on-net-migration-measures-further-detail</a></p><p>and</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/legal-migration-statement-estimated-immigration-impacts/legal-migration-statement-estimated-immigration-impacts-accessible" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/legal-migration-statement-estimated-immigration-impacts/legal-migration-statement-estimated-immigration-impacts-accessible</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Government engages regularly with business sectors, including through a number of its advisory groups, when developing its policies and which will continue to strike the balance between reducing overall net migration and ensuring that businesses have the skills they need to support economic growth.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 14146 question first answered 26/02/2024 17:18:16 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi