Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 28684 on British Nationality: Fees and Charges, what the target timeframe is for deciding on fee waivers for child citizenship.

The Home Office publishes data on the processing of child citizenship fee waiver applications on the gov.uk website. The data shows that over half of the applications submitted in the last quarter were concluded within four weeks, and 99.7% of applications from the previous quarter were concluded within 6 months.

Immigration statistics are published at Migration statistics. While these include statistics for child citizenship fee waiver applications, they do not identify the specific reasons why an application was rejected. The reasons for why an application is rejected is not recorded in a reportable format. It would require a manual check of each individual application to obtain the data, which could only be done at a disproportionate cost.

The Home Office publishes data on the processing of child citizenship fee waiver applications on gov.uk.

The latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here:

Immigration and protection data: Q3 2024 - GOV.UK.

There is no published service standard for child citizenship fee waiver applications. The data does show that over half of the applications submitted in the last quarter were concluded within four weeks, and 99.7% of applications from the previous quarter were concluded within 6 months.