Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) the vicious circle we are in, where GCSE take-up has stalled, so A-level take-up has fallen, so applications - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) Bursaries have been reduced and the difficulty of getting visas has prevented possible teachers getting - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) The restraints on collective visas for school visits to the UK make no sense whatever. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mike Tapp (Lab - Dover and Deal) Exploitation of workers is unacceptable, and overseas recruitment for social care visas closed in July - Speech Link
2: Elsie Blundell (Lab - Heywood and Middleton North) have each outlined to me the profound uncertainty that they face regarding their employer-sponsored visas - Speech Link
3: Mike Tapp (Lab - Dover and Deal) When visas end, people should leave the country, and that is what this Government will ensure. - Speech Link
4: Mike Tapp (Lab - Dover and Deal) Ukrainian visa applications are processed swiftly, and e-visas can be easily accessed online to prove - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) On the massive reduction in the number of family reunification applications that are accepted or in family - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) Member said, 92% to 93% of family reunion visas—I think about 1,200—in the last year were for wives and - Speech Link
3: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) Government, for example to ensure that the settlement period for those on British national overseas visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Empey (UUP - Life peer) Let us face it: we are issuing the visas. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sarfraz (Con - Life peer) Many countries now offer one-year visas that allow people to live and work temporarily without being - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) It can speed up the processing of visas, benefits, tax reviews and casework. - Speech Link
2: Kanishka Narayan (Lab - Vale of Glamorgan) closely.On safety, we understand that AI is a general-purpose technology, with a wide range of applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Alexander of Cleveden (Lab - Life peer) what assessment they have made of the potential impact on economic growth of trends in the number of visas - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) How many visas have been applied for so far under this taskforce and how many have been granted? - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) Hintze’s question, can the Minister—who has already addressed the economic impact of high skilled visas—say - Speech Link
4: Lord Lemos (Lab - Life peer) eligibility was expanded from the top 50 to the top 100 international universities, up to a cap of 8,000 applications - Speech Link
5: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) £41,700 per year, will, as a result of this Government’s policies, find themselves deported when their visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Naish (Lab - Rushcliffe) focus today on two groups, Hongkongers and Ukrainians, as the two largest recipients of humanitarian visas - Speech Link
2: James Naish (Lab - Rushcliffe) Friend is absolutely right to note that applications fluctuate. - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Can applicants have a timeline for their applications, so that they know how long they will have to wait - Speech Link
4: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Clapham and Brixton Hill) Friend agree that it would be better to tackle channel crossings by introducing more humanitarian visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) perilous channel crossings, but a roughly equal proportion come legally, via visitor, work or study visas - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) those who arrive illegally on small boats; we are also talking about people who arrive on visitor visas - Speech Link
3: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab - Sheffield Central) Has the Home Secretary assessed the cost to the Home Office of processing thousands of repeated applications - Speech Link
4: Sojan Joseph (Lab - Ashford) of nurses and care workers working in the NHS and care homes who were seeking to extend their work visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) our pivot to military sites—was the choice of the previous Government to simply stop assessing applications - Speech Link
2: Mike Tapp (Lab - Dover and Deal) UK Visas and Immigration makes millions of decisions every year about who has permission to visit or - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The ETA applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis, and we are working to examine those issues - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) is as frictionless as possible, particularly in areas where individuals can now apply for long-term visas - Speech Link