Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help people in Sudan who have been granted entry clearance to the UK but face obstacles to leaving Sudan.

The UK evacuation response from Sudan was open to all British nationals, and their eligible dependents who wished to leave Sudan, travelling with a British passport holder and having existing permission to come to the UK. The UK Government cannot offer advice on the safety of travelling to any departure point within Sudan and the UK's Visa Application Centre (VAC) in Khartoum remains closed until further notice. UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) are committed to doing all they can to support customers and are contacting customers, whose passports were held in the Khartoum VAC, by email to outline what options are available to them. UKVI are currently operating within their global customer services standards across all the main legal migration routes for customers who make an entry clearance application from overseas. The UK is working with our international counterparts from African, Quad (KSA, UAE, UK, US) and European countries, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the African Union and the UN, to end the violence and allow humanitarian access in Sudan.