Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) afford a car or taxis, because that“money is needed to buy food or has already been used to pay for visas - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Visa application volumes are monitored and there remains a substantial demand for visas across the majority - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Worcester (Bshp - Bishops) grateful—as would all of us on these Benches—for some clarification of the status of tier 2 ministry religion visas - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) Lords, many of the problems that we have discussed over the months and years come from the backlog of applications - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) There are BNO passport holders, Ukrainian visas, and ARAP in Afghanistan, as my noble friend has alluded - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) that we are much better able to send people who should not be in the UK to Rwanda for their asylum applications - Speech Link
2: Imran Hussain (Lab - Bradford East) Doubling the minimum income requirement for family visas to £38,700, knowing full well that hundreds - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) the compelling case for an urgent review of the rejected or rescinded approvals of their settlement applications - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) the UK, and returning to what the Foreign Secretary described as his number one priority, how many UK visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (Con - Ribble Valley) such information must include the type of sentence and the time limit for application, and advise that applications - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) leave to remain and the destitution domestic violence concession model for those on partner and spousal visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Regulations 2023, which increase fees by above inflation for a range of immigration and nationality applications - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LD - Life peer) I will look particularly at fee waivers for applications for limited leave to remain. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Adult registration applications do not have a waiver available, but most of the applications for registration - Speech Link
4: None Some 43,947 fee waiver applications were received in 2022. - Speech Link
5: None billion in 2022-23, including the Migration and Borders Group customer service covering passports, visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) The service standard for family reunion applications is 12 weeks, but I am told that many applications - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) , with over half of those visas for children. - Speech Link
3: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) The guidance sets out the circumstances under which UK Visas and Immigration will either predetermine - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Harrington of Watford (Con - Life peer) There is then a series of other obstacles, such as planning, visas, skills, the grid, et cetera. - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) There has been a 40% increase, to over 200,000, in work visas given to dependants. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) That will undoubtedly help cash-strapped councils, and hopefully speed up applications—but, given that - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) Social care visas have gone from 3,000 a year to more than 100,000 a year, yet this spring Ministers - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) ago, and around 100,000 visas were granted to Chinese students, up 87% over the past 10 years? - Speech Link
3: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) the problem, but he will be aware that the performance of the Home Office in processing all kinds of applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) safe and legal routes to the UK, she knows that we have issued more than half a million humanitarian visas - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) We have issued more than half a million humanitarian visas, which is a record we should all be proud - Speech Link
3: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) What assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing temporary visas to the dependants of - Speech Link
4: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) actions are being taken to address the technical problems contributing to delays in processing BRP applications - Speech Link
5: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) Lady that that part of our Visas and Immigration service is now operating within its service standard - Speech Link