Homes for Ukraine: Visa Application Centres Debate
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Jessica Morden
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Homes for Ukraine: Visa Application Centres
Jessica Morden Excerpts(2 years, 7 months ago)
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Kevin Foster
As I said, we have already issued nearly 90,000 visas. We are working hard each day to increase that number, and that will remain our focus.
Jessica Morden (Newport East) (Lab)
Following on from the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Aberavon (Stephen Kinnock), we too in Newport East have cases where only one family member has had a visa—in one case, a six-year-old, more than a month since the entire family application went in. The kind people of Newport East have been very generous in opening their homes and their hearts, but what does the Minister suggest that we say to these families, who, as we have heard, are fast running out of money?
Kevin Foster
We can say to those families that we are fast getting through the applications. As I say, nearly 90,000 visas have been granted and we are seeing thousands more granted every day.