Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) Schengen visas—and discrepancies between the advice to schools from local authorities and that coming - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) Our young people need visas for 16 European countries at £70 for over-12s and £35 for six to 11 year-olds - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) for the scheme is clear, for the reasons that your Lordships set out, with an increasing number of applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None [Relevant document: e-petition 652602, Don’t increase the income requirement for family visas to £38,700 - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) The announcement of family visas fails that benchmark. - Speech Link
3: Siobhan Baillie (Con - Stroud) look at exemptions and special appeal routes so that families can put together their cases and make applications - Speech Link
4: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) However, as we have been reminded, family visas accounted for only 5% of total entry visas between January - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab - Life peer) There have been multiple failures identified in the Home Office system for awarding care worker visas - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) to the year ending December 2023, show that we have issued more than 146,000 health and care worker visas - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) I reiterate that we will go after people who are abusing the visas and the individuals. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool, Riverside) for years to the UK bringing over family members who are fleeing the conflict, or extending student visas - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) If the Labour party wants to launch a campaign for extra visas and a special scheme matching the one - Speech Link
3: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) First, given the circumstances people are having to live in, why is it taking over a year for many applications - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) had with his counterparts in Egypt, who, as far as I understand, are still suspending the issue of visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) to £38,700—and increasing the minimum income requirements for family visas. - Speech Link
2: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) Actually, the Government approve the vast majority of applications, so their approach is a waste of money - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) to travel after 7 October, and their visas expired. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) If the Government are not going to ban the IRGC, then at the very least visas should not be granted to - Speech Link
2: Lord True (Con - Life peer) academic technology approval scheme to protect research from ever-changing global threats and refused applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) restrictions on opening hours, to limit or stop the demonstrations at Nitzana, and to do more to grant visas - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) There is also the need for more visas, some 50 of which I mentioned are pending. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) those in Afghanistan and Pakistan whom we are told are awaiting review of their previously determined applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) In recent days, it has appeared that the Government will offer asylum seekers whose applications are - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) business as usual and absolutely important.The documents mention the responsibilities around issuing visas - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) France receives more applications, but rejects twice as many as we do. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) But then the applications get stuck at the point of decision making, not in Malawi, not with input from - Speech Link
5: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) How on earth can a Home Office official processing applications possibly hope to make sense of that? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) Of course, there are 2,000 seasonal worker visas to meet the demand in the run-up to Christmas. - Speech Link
2: Victoria Prentis (Con - Banbury) Applications for export licences are assessed on a case-by-case basis against strategic export licensing - Speech Link