Question follow-through · 99270
Visas: Sponsorship
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken to process certificate of sponsorship applications.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken to process certificate of sponsorship applications.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
It is the responsibility of individual businesses to monitor the visa expiry dates of their overseas employees and to take appropriate action to ensure continuity of employment. The published service standard for non-complex Undefined Certificate of Spons...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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