Question follow-through · 35798
Armed Forces: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to remove barriers for families of non-UK Armed Forces personnel to stay in the UK.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 13 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs
- Immigration Controls: Ukraine · 19 May 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to remove barriers for families of non-UK Armed Forces personnel to stay in the UK.
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2025
Answer published
HM Armed Forces personnel are exempt from immigration control in service. Those who do not naturalise as British during service, can apply for settlement under Appendix HM Armed Forces of the Immigration Rules on discharge when their exemption from immigr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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