Question follow-through · 41353

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to extend the application window for the Ukrainian Permission Extension scheme to three months.

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Home Office
Tabled
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
27 Mar 2025
Answer
2 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to extend the application window for the Ukrainian Permission Extension scheme to three months.

  2. 27 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The 28-day window for applications to be submitted enables effective operational planning across all visa routes and helps to ensure sufficient biometric enrolment capacity across all routes, which ultimately allows us to deliver the most efficient servic...

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