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1453619

registered interest
date	23/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of recent trends in the level of decision making costs for migration applications on migration application fees.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	145836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>Fees and the estimated unit cost for immigration and nationality applications are kept under review. When setting visa, immigration and citizenship fees, the Home Office takes into account a number of factors set by Section 68(9) of the Immigration Act 2014. Full details of which can be found via the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/22/section/68" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/22/section/68</a></p><p>The fees include the cost of processing the application, the wider cost of running the migration and borders system, international comparisons and the benefits that are likely to accrue from a successful application.</p><p>Fees and the estimated unit costs for immigration and nationality applications are published on gov.uk and can be viewed through this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visa-fees-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visa-fees-transparency-data</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 28/03/2022 13:58:21 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1453631

registered interest
date	23/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
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 (a) rationale and (b) number of applications in the latest period for which data is available for each definition for migration applications classified as non-straightforward.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	145837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The complexity of an application varies from case to case due to a range of factors which may include the various checks that must be carried out in the course of assessment.</p><p>The Home Office routinely conducts checks with other government departments and external agencies. This may mean the time it takes to process an application may be longer than normal, but in some cases, it is essential we do so.</p><p>If an application is deemed complex and expected to take longer than the standard processing timescale, UKVI will write to the customer within the standard processing time and explain what will happen next.</p><p>The Home Office is committed to publishing data in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. Transparency Data provides a breakdown of applications classified straightforward and non-straightforward and is available at Tab VC_02 of ‘Visas and Citizenship data: Q4 2021’: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fvisas-and-citizenship-data-q4-2021&amp;data=04%7C01%7CKelly.Humphries%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C6e2a7166e7924a19d27a08da1c9e711f%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637853764063599314%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=RTbMPi8uYXXWOnudJF1UDQT%2FP0at26zf40DhBHGe8Xg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q4-2021</a></p><p>Latest statistics published on 24 February 2022 shows the breakdown of cases that are classified as straightforward from Quarter 2 2019 until Quarter 4 of 2021 is 5,640,606 and non-straightforward during the same time frame is 629,403. The next set of data is due to be published on 26 May 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/04/2022 11:42:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1453638

registered interest
date	23/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Ukraine
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 expedite enhanced DBS checks for (a) Ukrainian refugees and (b) UK applicants to the Homes for Ukraine scheme to speed up the process of children coming to the UK from Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	145838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2022 answer text <p>This question can be best answered by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and should therefore be directed to that Department.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/04/2022 11:11:31 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1452431

registered interest
date	18/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of naturalisation applications were completed within her Department’s target of six months in each of the last four reporting periods for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	142437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2022 answer text <p>Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on naturalisation applications completed within six months, this data for the previous 4 quarters can be found on the Gov.uk website at.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q1-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q1-2021</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2021</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q3-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q3-2021</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q4-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q4-2021</a></p><p>The last set of data was published on 24<sup>th</sup> February 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/03/2022 10:30:25 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1451868

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of compensating passport holders for lost unexpired time on their passports at renewal.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	141170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>As the British passport remains a valid passport up until its expiry date, and a need to renew early is determined by where the holder may choose to travel, there are no plans to compensate for any unused validity period.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/03/2022 18:37:27 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 59022 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1436917

registered interest
date	01/03/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees her Department estimates will arrive from Ukraine; and whether her Department plans to limit the number of refugees that it will admit from Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	132224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government has set no limit on the number of Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion who can come to the UK and does not plan to.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/04/2022 11:44:58 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 55878 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1435267

registered interest
date	24/02/2022
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 intends to respond to the case raised in HC debate 25 January, vol 707, col 832, on Iranian refugees, and the correspondence of 25 January and 9 February from the hon. Member for Ealing, Southall constituency.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	129102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office responded to the Hon. Member’s correspondence on 28 February 2022.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 01/03/2022 18:04:40 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 54368 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1381867

registered interest
date	24/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Immigration
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 simplifying the process for undocumented migrants to regularise their immigration status.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	80934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2021 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to an immigration policy which welcomes people to the UK through safe and legal routes but deters illegal immigration.</p><p> </p><p>There are several options available for those in the UK without lawful leave to regularise their immigration status. The Immigration Rules set out the requirements to be met to qualify for a right to remain which provides clarity for applicants and decision makers alike. There are also discretionary policies for leave to be granted outside the Immigration Rules in exceptional circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office has accepted the Law Commission’s report on the simplification of the Immigration Rules and is in the process of revising and simplifying the immigration rules. We are currently in the process of simplifying routes such as private and family life which are open to undocumented migrants.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 01/12/2021 14:28:40 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1381868

registered interest
date	24/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of allowing people in the process of regularising their immigration status to be able to (a) register for a National Insurance number, (b) apply for a UK-issued driving licence and (c) apply for a unique taxpayer reference number if self-employed.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	80935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2021 answer text <p>In common with other comparable countries, the UK has in place a framework of laws, policies and administrative arrangements to ensure access to work, benefits and services is only permitted for those who are lawfully present in the UK who have the right to access them. This includes restrictions on the ability to obtain a UK driving licence for those without lawful status. The aim of these policies is to deter and prevent immigration offences, including clandestine entry and overstaying.</p><p> </p><p>DWP is responsible for the Adult National Insurance number (NINO) allocation process, which allocates NINOs predominantly for work purposes. Consistent with immigration policy, proof of a right to work in the UK is a condition in the allocation of a work-related NINO.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/12/2021 17:13:21 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1330665

registered interest
date	08/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: British National (Overseas)
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to support BN(O) holders’ children who cannot renew their passports through the Chinese embassy due to safety concerns.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	12091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>To apply for the Hong Kong BN(O) route, applicants must have a valid passport or other travel document which shows their identity and nationality.</p><p>Where applicants do not have a valid passport, they will need to submit an alternative, valid travel document which can be used to prove their identity and nationality. This means a document, other than a passport, which has been issued by the government of the UK or another state and which enables travel from one country to another, for example, a valid national identity card.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 14/06/2021 15:31:08 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma