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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Tuesday 8th February 2022

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the email from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley of 11 November 2021, case reference LH18478; and if her Department will provide an update on that urgent application.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

I apologise for the delay. The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 1 February 2022.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Friday 4th February 2022

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the email from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley dated 15 September 2021, case reference LH16834; and if her Department will provide an update on that urgent application.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

I apologise for the delay. UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded to all of the enquiries sent by the hon. Member on 28 January 2022.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Friday 4th February 2022

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the email from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley dated 15 September 2021, case reference LH16830; and if her Department will provide an update on that urgent application.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

I apologise for the delay. UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded to all of the enquiries sent by the hon. Member on 28 January 2022.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Friday 4th February 2022

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the email from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley dated 15 September 2021, case reference LH16773; and if her Department will provide an update on that urgent application.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

I apologise for the delay. UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded to all of the enquiries sent by the hon. Member on 28 January 2022.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Friday 4th February 2022

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the email from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley dated 15 September 2021, case reference LH16318; and if her Department will provide an update on that urgent application.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

I apologise for the delay. UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded to all of the enquiries sent by the hon. Member on 28 January 2022.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Friday 4th February 2022

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the email from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley dated 15 September 2021, case reference LH14942; and what progress her Department has made on the application connected to that case.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

I apologise for the delay. UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded to all of the enquiries sent by the hon. Member on 28 January 2022.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Friday 4th February 2022

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the email from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley of 21 October 2021, case reference LH14045; and what progress her Department has made on the application connected to that case.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

I apologise for the delay. UK Visas and Immigration, MP Account Management team responded to all of the enquiries sent by the hon. Member on 28 January 2022.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Friday 28th January 2022

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the email from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley dated 1 December 2021, case reference LH15356; and if her Department will provide an update on that family's urgent application.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The Home Office responded to the correspondence on 26 January 2022.


Written Question
Immigration: Yemen
Monday 1st February 2021

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on reuniting children under the age of five in Yemen with family members who are currently in Britain.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Government provides the following safe and legal routes under the Immigration Rules for children, regardless of where they are in the world, to join family in the UK:

  • part 8, paragraph 297 provides for a child to join a British or settled parent or relative in the UK;
  • part 8, paragraph 319X provides for a child to join a relative with limited leave to remain as a refugee or beneficiary of humanitarian protection in the United Kingdom;
  • part 11, paragraphs 325D and 352FG provide for a child to join a parent with refugee status or humanitarian protection in the UK.

Written Question
Human Trafficking: British Nationality
Monday 1st February 2021

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) longest and (b) average time is for victims of human trafficking to receive naturalisation as British citizens.

Answered by Kevin Foster

There is no separate application route to citizenship for victims of human trafficking and so they are considered alongside all other citizenship applications.

This means we cannot separate out data for this cohort through normal reporting mechanisms. Transparency data with information on service standards for citizenship applications can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visas-and-citizenship-data-november-2020