Question follow-through · 78999

Visas: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time was for visas broken down by (a) each visa route and (b) month since July 2024.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 10 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 14 Oct 2025
Answer: 22 Oct 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time was for visas broken down by (a) each visa route and (b) month since July 2024.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2025
Answer published
UKVI have been processing applications on all of its routes where a customer service standard is operated within their published customer service standards during the requested time period. On 1 September the Secretary of State for the Home Department ann...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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