Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the average length of time taken between an application being made and a visa being awarded through the (a) the Ukraine Family Scheme and (b) Homes for Ukraine scheme.

Applications made under the Ukraine Family Scheme and Homes for Ukraine are being prioritised, where further information is needed on an application, UKVI will contact the customer as a priority.

As part of the Home Office’s commitment to make it easier for applicants to apply to our schemes, since 15 March Ukrainians with valid passports no longer need to go to a Visa Application Centre to give their biometrics before they come to the UK.

The Home Office does not capture the average length of time between applications being submitted and granted under either the Ukraine Family Scheme or Homes for Ukraine Scheme.

To capture this would require a manual trawl of data and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.