Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a date has been set for resuming the processing of settlement visa applications following the judgment of the Supreme Court of 22 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.