Question follow-through · 72481
Visas: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a right of appeal for visitor visa refusals.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a right of appeal for visitor visa refusals.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
Where a visitor visa is refused, the applicant will receive reasons for the decision which they can address in a further application. There are no current plans to change this position.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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