Question follow-through · 69275

Visas: Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will waive biometric visa requirements for students in Gaza who are due to commence university programmes in the UK.

answeredChris LawHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 21 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 1 Sept 2025
Answer: 5 Sept 2025 · 46 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline

21 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will waive biometric visa requirements for students in Gaza who are due to commence university programmes in the UK.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Home Office has put in place systems to issue expedited visas for all Chevening scholars from Gaza, with biometric checks conducted prior to arrival in the UK.We are in the process of doing the same for a group of students in Gaza who have been awarde...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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