Question follow-through · 127027
Visas: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest time was that it has taken for a paid for priority and super priority application to be turned around and decided since 2000.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 20 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest time was that it has taken for a paid for priority and super priority application to be turned around and decided since 2000.
15 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Apr 2026
Answer published
Statistics on UK Visas and Immigration applications is published in table VSI_01a on GOV.UK in the ‘Visas, status and immigration data: October to December 2025’, as part of the 'Migration Transparency data'. The information displayed goes back to 2021. F...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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