Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the average time taken to process a naturalisation application in each of the last five years.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website. We do not publish data on average processing times for naturalisation applications.
The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here:
Visas and citizenship data: Q3 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Alistair Strathern (Labour - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce processing times for decisions on the naturalisation of children.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website. This includes performance against the service standard for completing applications. The most recent Migration Transparency Data published in November 2023 shows that 99.9% of straightforward applications were decided within service standard.
The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q3-2023.
Asked by: Alistair Strathern (Labour - Mid Bedfordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's average processing time for reaching a decision on a naturalisation application was in each of the last five years.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website. This includes performance against the service standard for completing applications. The most recent Migration Transparency Data published in November 2023 shows that 99.98% of straightforward applications were decided within service standard.
The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q3-2023.
Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's target timescales are for the processing of naturalisation applications.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The service standard for applications for naturalisation is six months.
Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken to approve naturalisation applications was in each of the last three months.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Secretary of State’s Home Department publishes data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website. We do not publish data on average processing times for naturalisation applications.
The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2023
Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2023 to Question 202950 on Naturalisation: Applications, if she will correct the broken link to her Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-2023 in that Answer; if she will provide a link to the reference to naturalisation in those Report and Accounts; and whether her Department collects information on the length of time taken to process naturalisation applications.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
We apologise for error in UIN 202950. The link to the HO Annual report is :
Home Office annual report and accounts: 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how long has her Department's current longest-running naturalisation application taken so far to be processed as of October 2023.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases. Published data regarding naturalisation applications can be found via the Transparency Report (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report) and the Migration statistics (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-march-2023).
Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of security checks for naturalisation applications have expired and required subsequent re-vetting in the last month for which data is available.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The data is not available.
Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2023 to Question 186725 on Naturalisation: Applications, how many and what proportion of total naturalisation applications consisted of non-straightforward applications in the last 12 months.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office publishes data on the processing of applications for British citizenship on the Gov.uk website. This includes the total number of applications received and the number of those that were non-straightforward. The link to the latest Migration Transparency Data can be found here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-q2-2023
Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for naturalisation have been submitted each year since 2010; and what has been the average processing time per year.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office publishes data on the number of applications for naturalisation and registration of British citizenship. Annual data for citizenship applications can be found in table Cit_01 of the citizenship summary tables.
The Home Office publishes data on processing times for total citizenship applications against service standards in table VSI_02 Visas and Citizenship Migration transparency data.
The latest data relates to the year ending June 2023.