Question follow-through · 109958
Visas: Pakistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department takes before issuing visas to former Pakistani military officers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs
- Home Office: Sick Leave · 20 Feb 2026
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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 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department takes before issuing visas to former Pakistani military officers.
4 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2026
Answer published
UK Visas and Immigration undertake a range of checks as part of the visa application process. These checks can include verifying the information provided by the applicant, assessing their eligibility against the relevant Immigration Rules, verifying suppo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Home Office: Sick Leave
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the mental health absence rate is in (a) the Work, Study, Family and Ukraine visa unit within the Visas and Passports directorate, and (b) the Home Office.
Home Office: Sick Leave
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of mental health absences in the Work, Study, Family and Ukraine visa unit within the Visas and Passports directorate, in each of the past th