Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of implications for her Department's policy on settlement visa applications of the Supreme Court judgment of February 2017.
A temporary hold on decision-making in respect of some settlement visa applications was introduced on 22 February 2017 so that the implications of the Supreme Court judgment handed down that day in MM (Lebanon) & Others could be considered.
The settlement visa applications affected are those under Appendix FM to the Immigration Rules which fall to be refused and which involve a child or do not meet the minimum income requirement. The temporary hold will be lifted once the judgment’s findings have been addressed.