Question follow-through · 8482

Immigration: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department began using Equifax checks as part of the fee waiver assessment process for leave to remain applications.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 10 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 14 Oct 2024
Answer: 21 Oct 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department began using Equifax checks as part of the fee waiver assessment process for leave to remain applications.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Home Office have had contracts to enable financial checking since at least 2014 and therefore financial checks may have been used as part of fee waiver considerations from this date.As outlined in the Fee Waiver guidance, checks may be undertaken with...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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