Immigration and Visas: Human Rights

(asked on 12th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that citizens of (a) Belarus and (b) other countries where people who oppose political regimes are at risk of human rights abuses will be offered the opportunity to renew their UK visas or UK immigration status without having to return to their home country to make the necessary application to her Department.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 20th July 2021

As part of the introduction of the points-based system, we have enabled applicants to switch between immigration routes without having to leave the UK. This applies to all nationals.


Information on those immigration routes, which must be renewed from the home country of the applicant, is available on our website at:

Application to extend stay in the UK: FLR(IR) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

There is also the option to make an asylum claim in person, whilst in the UK, at an application centre. Further information on the asylum process, as well as locations at which an asylum claim can be made, is available here:

Claim asylum in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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