Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average amount of time it takes for an applicant to the Ukraine Family Scheme to get an appointment for a biometric test in (a) Poland, (b) Romania and (c) Moldova.

The Home Office does not capture the average wait times for appointments for individual Visa Application Centres. To capture numbers would require a manual trawl of data and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.

As part of the Home Office’s commitment to make it easier for applicants to apply to our schemes, since 15 March Ukrainians with valid passports no longer need to go to a Visa Application Centre to give their biometrics before they come to the UK.