Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will take steps to offer visitor and family reunion visas to people impacted by the February 2023 earthquake in Türkiye and Syria.

The UK government continues to support people who have relatives impacted by the horrific natural disaster in Turkey and Syria. This includes supporting British nationals and those who are either settled or have refugee or humanitarian protection status in the UK.

Where family members do not have a current UK visa, they can apply online via one of our available standard visa routes (including visitor or family reunion as appropriate). Biometrics can be submitted at the nearest Visa Application Centre (VAC).

Decision making teams are still processing visa applications from Turkey and for people living in Syria and so existing visa services continue to be available.

We continue to prioritise applications where there is an evidenced urgent or compelling reason to do so.