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Written Question
Immigration: EU Nationals
Monday 4th December 2023

Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time taken was to process an EU settlement scheme application in the latest period for which data is available.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The following link contains more details in regards to EUSS processing times: EU Settlement Scheme: current estimated processing times for applications - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

All applications made under the scheme are determined on a case-by-case basis depending on their individual circumstances.

The latest link to our quarterly statistics can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-quarterly-statistics-september-2023


Written Question
Naturalisation: Applications
Thursday 26th October 2023

Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's target timescales are for the processing of naturalisation applications.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The service standard for applications for naturalisation is six months.

Apply for citizenship if you have indefinite leave to remain or 'settled status': After you’ve applied - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)


Written Question
Naturalisation: Applications
Thursday 26th October 2023

Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken to approve naturalisation applications was in each of the last three months.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website. We do not publish data on average processing times for naturalisation applications.

The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2023


Written Question
Naturalisation: Applications
Thursday 26th October 2023

Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2023 to Question 202950 on Naturalisation: Applications, if she will correct the broken link to her Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-2023 in that Answer; if she will provide a link to the reference to naturalisation in those Report and Accounts; and whether her Department collects information on the length of time taken to process naturalisation applications.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

We apologise for error in UIN 202950. The link to the HO Annual report is :
Home Office annual report and accounts: 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)


Written Question
Naturalisation: Applications
Friday 20th October 2023

Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long has her Department's current longest-running naturalisation application taken so far to be processed as of October 2023.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases. Published data regarding naturalisation applications can be found via the Transparency Report (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report) and the Migration statistics (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-march-2023).


Written Question
Naturalisation: Applications
Friday 20th October 2023

Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of security checks for naturalisation applications have expired and required subsequent re-vetting in the last month for which data is available.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The data is not available.


Written Question
Biometric Residence Permits
Wednesday 6th September 2023

Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many biometric residence permits have been delayed at (a) approval, (b) printing and (c) re-printing as a result of IT problems in each of the last six months.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The information is not available publicly and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Visas: Applications
Monday 12th June 2023

Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of introducing an appeals process for rejected visa applications made abroad.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

There are no plans to estimate the cost to the public purse on introducing appeals processes for refused visa applications.


Written Question
Visas: Applications
Thursday 8th June 2023

Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications for UK visas have been rejected in each of the last five years.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Data on the number of applications that have been rejected is published as part of the Home Office Migration Transparency data. For 2019-2022, the information can be viewed here Visas and citizenship data: Q1 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)


Written Question
Visas: Applications
Thursday 8th June 2023

Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was charged in fees for rejected visa applications in each of the last five years.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The information requested could not be obtained without disproportionate cost.

If a visa application is rejected by the Home Office as invalid, the visa fee paid will be refunded minus a £25 administrative charge, as specified in the Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2018. If the visa fee paid is £25 or less and the application is rejected as invalid, the whole of the visa fee will be retained by the Home Office.