Question follow-through · 36229
Visas: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will consider reducing the British National Overseas visa holders' requirement for home fee status to three years of continuous residence.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 29 Mar 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will consider reducing the British National Overseas visa holders' requirement for home fee status to three years of continuous residence.
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Mar 2025
Answer published
To qualify for home fee status in the UK, a person must have settled status or ’a recognised connection’ to the UK, and in the case of persons with settled status, be ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) for three ye...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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