Question follow-through · 70894

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposals in the immigration white paper of 12 May 2025 on people on ancestry visas.

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Home Office
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
17 Sept 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposals in the immigration white paper of 12 May 2025 on people on ancestry visas.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 17 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Government values the UK’s close cultural and historical ties with its fellow Commonwealth countries and this is reflected by the UK Ancestry visa, which allows Commonwealth citizens with a UK-born grandparent to live and work in the UK.Further detail...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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