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1439761

registered interest
date	10/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an applicant to the Ukraine family scheme who does not have a visa will be permitted travel to the United Kingdom without incurring carrier liability fees.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	138146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2022 answer text <p>Those eligible for the Ukraine family scheme should ensure they obtain the correct permission to come to the UK. Those eligible for the scheme who hold a valid Ukrainian Passport no longer need to go to a Visa Application Centre and can apply online, they will be able to give their biometrics once they have arrived in the UK.</p><p>Carriers’ liability legislation will apply as normal and guidance for carriers on discharging their obligations will be updated as necessary.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 15/03/2022 17:28:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1439763

registered interest
date	10/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to oral contribution of 10 March 2022, if all outstanding visa applications from Ukrainian applicants seeking to join family in the United Kingdom will fall under the new scheme.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	138165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2022 answer text <p>As set out in the Home Secretary’s statement to the House on 1 March, a fee free, bespoke Ukraine Family Scheme has been introduced. The route allows both immediate family (spouse, civil partner, durable partner, minor children) and extended family (parent, grandparent, adult children, grandchildren, siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, in laws and their immediate family) to join qualifying family members in the UK. This route was launched on 4 March.</p><p>If an applicant has applied on another application form or under a different visa route and the decision maker feels the applicant would qualify under the Ukraine Family Scheme, the decision maker will write to the applicant and offer them the opportunity to be considered under the Scheme. The decision maker will consider the application on the evidence already provided unless there is insufficient information to make a decision. This will ensure an application can be assessed under the Ukraine Family Scheme without the need for a further application.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 15/03/2022 17:27:35 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1439775

registered interest
date	10/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan citizens have successfully reached the UK since the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme was launched on 6 January 2022; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Sir Charles Walker
uin	137993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme opened on 6th January, providing up to 20,000 women, children and others at risk with a safe and legal route to resettle in the UK.</p><p>There are around 6,500 people in the UK who have been brought to safety during and after the evacuation who are eligible for the ACRS through pathway 1. Eligible people who were called forward during the evacuation, but were not able to board flights, will also be eligible for the ACRS through this pathway.</p><p>Due to the success of our emergency evacuation and the larger than anticipated number of people brought over to the UK, we plan to exceed our initial aim of 5,000 people in the first year of the ACRS.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 15/03/2022 17:25:19 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

1439846

registered interest
date	10/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her oral response of 10 March 2022 to the Urgent Question on refugees from Ukraine, whether Ukrainian nationals applying to the family visa scheme will be required to have more than six months' validity remaining on their passports.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	138025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2022 answer text <p>Ukrainian nationals applying under the Ukraine Family Scheme are not required to have more than six months left on their passport.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 15/03/2022 17:23:42 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1439201

registered interest
date	09/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
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 publish the international partners and NGOs that her Department plans to work with to welcome wider groups of Afghans via the third pathway of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	137402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme commenced on 6 January, providing up to 20,000 women, children and others at risk with a safe and legal route to resettle in the UK.</p><p>The scheme prioritises those who have assisted UK efforts in Afghanistan and stood up for UK values such as democracy, women’s rights, freedom of speech and rule of law; and vulnerable people such as women and girls at risk, and members of minority groups (including ethnic / religious minorities and LGBT+).</p><p>In the first year of this third referral pathway, the Government will offer ACRS places to the most at risk British Council and GardaWorld contractors and Chevening alumni. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will be in touch with those eligible to support them through the next steps.</p><p>We committed to working with international partners and NGOs to welcome wider groups of Afghans at risk beyond year one.</p><p>We will provide further information in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/03/2022 15:15:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 57365 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1439204

registered interest
date	09/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish further details on the referral criteria for the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme's third pathway beyond year one.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	137405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme commenced on 6 January, providing up to 20,000 women, children and others at risk with a safe and legal route to resettle in the UK.</p><p>The scheme prioritises those who have assisted UK efforts in Afghanistan and stood up for UK values such as democracy, women’s rights, freedom of speech and rule of law; and vulnerable people such as women and girls at risk, and members of minority groups (including ethnic / religious minorities and LGBT+).</p><p>In the first year of this third referral pathway, the Government will offer ACRS places to the most at risk British Council and GardaWorld contractors and Chevening alumni. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will be in touch with those eligible to support them through the next steps.</p><p>We committed to working with international partners and NGOs to welcome wider groups of Afghans at risk beyond year one.</p><p>We will provide further information in due course.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/03/2022 15:14:35 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 57362 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1439232

registered interest
date	09/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will limit practical barriers to Ukrainian refugees applying for a visa overseas by waiving the requirement to provide biometric data at a visa application centre.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	137379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Secretary updated Parliament on 10 March about the government's support for people fleeing Ukraine, including the need to visit a visa application centre to provide biometric data:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-update-on-support-for-ukrainians</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/03/2022 15:16:51 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 57367 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1439252

registered interest
date	09/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Army
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 reduce or remove the visa charge for foreign soldiers who have fought for the UK and wish to move to the UK; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	137256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Secretary and Defence Secretary announced on 23 February that the Government has decided to waive settlement fees for non-UK personnel in our Armed Forces, who have six years or more reckonable service, or who are discharged due to an illness or injury attributable to their service regardless of the length of their service.</p><p> </p><p>These changes are being implemented via an update to the Immigration Fees and Regulations, with the changes coming into effect on 6 April 2022.</p><p> </p><p>The Written Statement regarding this policy can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2022-02-23/hcws624" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2022-02-23/hcws624</a>.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/03/2022 15:23:30 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 57369 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1439256

registered interest
date	09/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Application Registration Card
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the (a) waiting times for an Application registration card (ARC) for unaccompanied minors to be issued and (b) average number of days taken to process ARC cards for unaccompanied minors in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	137259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>An Application Registration Card (ARC) is produced as a routine part of the registration process for asylum applicants, and is not an immigration product in its own right which people apply for.</p><p> </p><p>The system will produce and deliver an ARC within three days of the asylum screening taking place. ARC figures broken down as requested are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/03/2022 15:12:35 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 57371 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

1438843

registered interest
date	08/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Russia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 1 Investor Visas issued to Russian nationals between 2008 and 2022 have been assessed by her Department as posing a national security risk.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	136522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government intends to publish its review of cases between 2008 to 2015 shortly.</p><p>Beyond the findings of the review, as regards specific numbers between 2008 and 2022 of Russian nationals identified as posing a National Security Risk, it is the longstanding policy of successive British Governments to not comment on intelligence matters.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 136523 question first answered 11/03/2022 12:48:53 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell