Question follow-through · 28324
Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the backlog of visa applications.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the backlog of visa applications.
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2025
Answer published
Visa processing times are published on the UKVI website at Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). UKVI are currently processing appl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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