Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what compensation his Department provides to people who experience delays with their spousal visa applications.

The specific data requested is not available. Information on the employer of those individuals sponsoring visa applicants is not collected by the Home Office as it is not required as part of visa application processes.

Published data on visa processing times, including the percentage of visas processed within published service standards, is published online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data (then listed by publication date under ‘UK Visas & Immigration’).

Should a customer wish to seek compensation they are advised to contact UKVI and they will be dealt with on a case by case basis in accordance with the complaints procedure:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about/complaints-procedure