Biometric Residence Permits

(asked on 10th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outstanding applications there are for biometric residence permits; and how many of those applications were outstanding at the end of (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020 and (d) 2021.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 18th October 2022

BRPs are issued to customers as part of the visa application process. Customers do not submit separate applications for BRPs; therefore, information on the number of outstanding BRP applications is not available.

The waiting times for biometric residence permits (BRP) are dictated by the BRP production and delivery processes.

We aim to deliver a BRP within 7 working days of the immigration decision. BRPs are produced at the secure delivery facility (Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA)) within 48 hours of the production request being made and are collected by our secure delivery partner the same day. Our secure delivery partner (FedEx) aims to attempt to deliver the BRPs within 48 hours of receipt of the BRPs. This equates to a minimum of 5 working days from date of production request being made to delivery of the BRP. We have added an additional 2 working days to the timeline advised to applicants to allow us to resolve any production issues.

In September, the DVLA produced all BRPs within 48 hours of the production request, with 91.1% being produced within 24 hours. In September, FedEx attempted to deliver 99.88% of BRPs within 48 hours.

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