Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference her Department’s press release entitled Visa brake imposed on 4 countries after widespread visa abuse, published on 4 March 2026, whether the block will apply to applicants who have been granted a visa but have not yet arrived in the UK.

It is estimated that the brake will reduce the number of asylum claims from migrants arriving in the UK on visas by 1,400 over an 18-month period.

The brake does not cancel existing visas, nor does it change the conditions of visas already granted.