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registered interest false more like this
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Home Office more like this
answering dept id 1 more like this
answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Visas: Families remove filter
house id 1 more like this
legislature
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pref label House of Commons more like this
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. more like this
tabling member constituency South Shields more like this
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Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck more like this
uin 117609 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2023-01-12more like thismore than 2023-01-12
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 more like this
answering member printed Robert Jenrick more like this
question first answered
less than 2023-01-12T17:58:02.37Zmore like thismore than 2023-01-12T17:58:02.37Z
answering member
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label Biography information for Robert Jenrick more like this
tabling member
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label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck more like this