Immigration

(asked on 13th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) shortest, (b) longest and (c) mean period of time was for deciding applications for family reunion in each of the last five years.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 22nd October 2015

The minimum*, maximum and average processing times for family reunion visa applications are set out in the table below.



Endorsement

Period

Average processing time

Minimum processing time

Maximum processing times

FAMILY REUNION

2010 Q2

48

0

541

2010 Q3

47

0

589

2010 Q4

39

0

570

2011 Q1

37

0

416

2011 Q2

45

0

777

2011 Q3

49

0

600

2011 Q4

50

0

456

2012 Q1

48

0

331

2012 Q2

48

0

320

2012 Q3

52

0

490

2012 Q4

45

0

321

2013 Q1

44

0

360

2013 Q2

45

0

314

2013 Q3

48

0

1184

2013 Q4

44

0

226

2014 Q1

43

0

330

2014 Q2

41

0

286

2014 Q3

38

0

419

2014 Q4

48

0

543

2015 Q1

30

0

357

2015 Q2

44

1

178


*Minimum processing times: The cases taking zero days to process were mainly those where a decision on the main applicant was taken on the same day as a newly dependant child’s application, where the child’s application was added to the Home Office caseworking system on the day of that decision. (e.g. where the child is born after the main applicant has submitted a visa application and a decision is also required on the child).

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