Question follow-through · 74196
Visas: Gaza
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to provide safe routes for students from Gaza who have secured UK scholarships but are currently unable to meet biometric requirements.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2025 · 8 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
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to provide safe routes for students from Gaza who have secured UK scholarships but are currently unable to meet biometric requirements.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Home Office has put in place systems to issue expedited visas, with biometric checks conducted prior to arrival for all Chevening Scholars from Gaza.We are in the process of doing the same for a group of students who have been awarded fully funded sch...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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