Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of extending access to the Ukraine Family Scheme to Ukrainians who have settled in the UK under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme.

As of 21 February 2023, the UK has granted a total of 219,400 visas under its Ukraine schemes. Of these, 66,100 were under the Ukraine Family Scheme and 153,300 were under the Home for Ukraine scheme.

The Ukraine Family Scheme allows a UK based sponsor who is a British citizen, settled in the UK, has protection status or limited leave to remain under the EUSS, to bring close family members, extended family members and close family members of those extended family members, to the UK. Those arriving in the UK must be Ukrainian or the family member of a Ukrainian.

The Homes for Ukraine Scheme provides for those Ukrainians and their family members seeking to enter the UK but who do not have family members to sponsor them under the Ukraine Family Scheme. This scheme allows individuals and organisations in the UK to sponsor applicants to come to the UK and to provide them with accommodation.

Both the Homes for Ukraine Scheme and the Ukraine Family Scheme are temporary and provide applicants with leave to enter or remain in the UK for three years. They also provide access to work, benefits, education, English language tutoring and services, including those provided by Local Authorities.

There are no current plans to extend the list of those eligible to sponsor or apply under these schemes, however we continue to keep all schemes under review.