Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the potential impact on the employment status of applicants on delays in processing in-time renewals for two and a half year Leave to Remain visas.

If an application for leave to remain is submitted ‘in-time’ (i.e. while the applicant still has leave to enter or remain), the applicant’s entitlements continue while the application is awaiting a decision as afforded by the Immigration Act 1971. This would include the right to work if this was part of the applicant’s previous conditions of leave to remain.