Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for further leave to remain via the five year route have been pending for over eleven months.

An applicant applying in the UK to extend a family visa (spouse or partner on a 5-year route to settlement) should get a decision within 8 weeks - Visa decision waiting times: applications inside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Current transparency data from the update on 24th November 2022 contains data from Q3 2021. Percentage of straightforward, standard family applications processed within stated processing times: LTR – 98.6%.

Data on the number of applications for further leave to remain via the five-year route which have been pending for more than eleven months does not form part of any current transparency data and is not published.

The transparency data does, however, include a range of processing and service standard data and can be found at: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).