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Refugees: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the affordability of visa application and renewal fees under the family route.

answeredHome Office

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

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the affordability of visa application and renewal fees under the family route.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    Fees for immigration and nationality applications are kept under review; however, the Home Office provides for exceptions to the need to pay application fees in a number of specific circumstances. These include affordability-based waivers for entry cleara...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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