Question follow-through · 118997

Visas: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will re-open the family reunion scheme.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
11 Mar 2026
Answer
17 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will re-open the family reunion scheme.

  2. 11 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The family reunion route was suspended to ease the pressures that local authorities and public services have been placed under due to the recent significant increase in people arriving under this route in recent years.Outstanding applications will continu...

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