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.
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).