Question follow-through · 107127
Visas: Married People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average timeframe is for decisions on fee waiver applications for partner visas.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average timeframe is for decisions on fee waiver applications for partner visas.
22 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jan 2026
Answer published
Fee Waiver data is published in tables FW_01 – FW_03 of the ‘Immigration and Protection dataset’ found here: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK, However, the specific information requested is not currently available from the published statistics because...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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