Asked by: Kirsten Oswald (Scottish National Party - East Renfrewshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the accessibility of the UK Visa and Immigration portal for social care workers visas.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The accessibility statement for the social care visa online application can be found through the following link: https://visas-immigration.service.gov.uk/accessibilityStatement.
Asked by: Kirsten Oswald (Scottish National Party - East Renfrewshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of attempts to log into the UK Visas and Immigration portal failed in each of the past six months.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office only retains the data for 30 days.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many holders of physical biometric residence permits have been given access to an online UK Visas and Immigration account.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Over 5m customers currently hold a UKVI account which they use to view their status, update a variety of personal information and share their immigration status with checking parties. The majority of account holders have digital-only evidence of their immigration status, however a proportion also have a biometric residence permit or card.
Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) show that the numbers applying for skilled worker, health and care and study visas in the first three - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) Immigration into the immigration system and its role in the care sector is deeply concerning. - Speech Link
2: None social care visas and did not have time to put this in place. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) The changes the Government have made regarding access to and cost of visas, including family visas, have - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) workers to come to the UK to work, compared to other immigration routes. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) Our points-based immigration system allows us to control who comes to the UK to work, study and visit - Speech Link
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his target is for the number of online UK Visas and Immigration accounts to be registered for holders of physical biometric residence permits by the end of June 2024.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
A number of our Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) application routes already provide customers with a UKVI account, through which they can view their immigration status, update a variety of personal information and share their status with checking parties.
We are delivering the ability for existing leave holders and new flow applicants to create a UKVI account from April 2024. From this point we will begin contacting customers directly via email where possible, and will utilise a range of additional communication channels to inform customers of the need to take action to create an account before their BRP cards expire at the end of 2024. We will closely monitor take up of account creation to assess the effectiveness of our communications.
Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) show that the numbers applying for skilled worker, health and care and study visas in the first three - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) The UK has played its part and it will continue to do so. - Speech Link
3: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) student visas are down 24%. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) immigration rules and the security of the UK’s borders. - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) Measures to curb immigration abuse and further reduce net migration are being implemented, ranging from - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) immigration and our responses to them. - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) There is a bitter irony in the UK Government making changes to health and social care visas—a sector - Speech Link
Jan. 04 2024
Source Page: I. Letter dated 21/12/2023 from Tom Pursglove MP to Diana Johnson MP regarding concessions to allow UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) to consider applications to the British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) route from individuals who are on immigration bail or in breach of immigration law in prescribed circumstances. 2p. II. Ministerial Authorisation under the Equality Act 2010: Equality (Applying two concessions around immigration bail and overstaying relating to BN(O) applicants who previously claimed asylum) Authorisation 2023. 2p.Found: Letter dated 21/12/2023 from Tom Pursglove MP to Diana Johnson MP regarding concessions to allow UK Visas