Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what proportion of in country partner or spouse visa applications were decided within the published processing times for that route in the latest period for which data is available and (b) what the average processing time was for such applications in that period.

The number of spouse partner visa applications made in country and processed within published times can be found at Migration transparency data - GOV.UK.

UKVI are currently assessing spouse/partner visa applications made in country within the published processing times. Information on visa processing times can be found at Visa processing times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK.

Average processing times do not form part of any current transparency data and are not published.