Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's guidance on applying for Ukraine Family Scheme visas, if she will make it her policy to include surrogate mothers who are carrying the children of British nationals in the list of eligible family members.

The Home Office has now made provision for this group, and their immediate family members, to be given permission to come to the UK based on their exceptional circumstances by granting entry visas outside the Immigration Rules. The surrogate mother, where the child is not yet born, and her immediate family will be able to enter the UK for a period of up to 36 months and will have access to public funds and employment. They will not be subject to any fees or an application fee or the Immigration Health Surcharge.

We also envisage cases in which the child will already have been born. In these cases we will grant visas outside the Immigration Rules on the basis of exceptional circumstances.

f the birth has taken place outside Ukraine, the British nationality status of the child may still not be fully resolved. In such circumstances we will establish a clear process for resolving this in the UK, to ensure the child can enter the UK using an immigration visa on the basis of such nationality as he or she may hold.