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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

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

1149321

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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 and what proportion of visitor visas were refused in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number and proportion of grants and refusals of visitor visas is published in the Home Office’s quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas table vi_01_q, latest edition at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2019</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/11/2019 11:14:52 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1140375

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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, what the reasons are that qualify an extension application as complex.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	279032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Tier 1 (General) route closed to Leave to Remain extension applications on 6 April 2015. Therefore, no Tier 1 General extension applications were received in the last twelve months.</p><p><br>The data regarding exceeding the eight-week service standards in current application routes can be found using the link <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/in-country-migration-data-may-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/in-country-migration-data-may-2019 </a></p><p><br>The statistics specific to service standards can be found on tab InC_02.</p><p>Historical data regarding service standards can be found via the following link:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#previous-data-releases" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#previous-data-releases</a></p><p>Complexity is identified on a case by case basis and will also vary depending on the application route. Therefore there is not an exhaustive list of the circumstances in which particular types of application might be deemed to be complex. Where an application is defined as non-straightforward, due to complexity, the customer will be written to within the normal processing time to explain why it will not be decided within the normal standard service, and to explain what will happen next.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 279030 279031 question first answered 22/07/2019 16:19:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1138661

registered interest
date	12/07/2019
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, how many applications for visitor visas from (a) US, (b) Russian, (c) Indian and (d) Chinese citizens were (i) granted and (ii) declined in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	276516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>Applications for visit visas are considered against Appendix V of the Immigration Rules and on a case by case basis. Detailed information on how UK Visas and Immigration makes decisions on visitor cases is published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visit-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visit-guidance</a>.</p><p>Information on total entry clearance visas (the majority of which are visitor visas) broken down by nationality and outcome (grants, refusals, withdrawals, lapsed) is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics Visas volume 1 table vi_02_q at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019-data-tables</a>.</p><p>Please note that the large majority of US nationals coming to the UK as visitors do not require an entry clearance visa, as shown in the Immigration Rules at (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-v-visitor-rules" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-v-visitor-rules</a>).</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/07/2019 16:08:28 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

1138662

registered interest
date	12/07/2019
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, what the average waiting time was for a decision on visitor visa application from (a) US, (b) Russian, (c) Indian and (d) Chinese citizens in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	276517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>Information on performance against service standards for UKVI international operations is published in the Migration transparency data, the latest publication of which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-may-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-may-2019</a>.</p><p>These indicate that the large majority of straightforward non-settlement visas (the large majority of which are visitor visas), 98.7%, are completed within the service standard of 15 working days.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/07/2019 16:14:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

1138663

registered interest
date	12/07/2019
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, what performance targets his Department has put in place for the time taken to make a decision on a visitor visa application form (a) US, (b) Russian, (c) Indian and (d) Chinese citizens.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	276518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>Under our published customer service standards we aim to process straightforward non-settlement applications within 15 working days.</p><p>The information for the latest quarter available is published online.</p><p><br>Data on entry clearance visa processing times, including the percentage and number of visas that are processed within service standards, is published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a> (then listed by publication date under ‘UK Visas &amp; Immigration’).</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/07/2019 16:13:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

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