Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Indefinite Leave to Remain applications took longer than 24 weeks to process in 2017.

Published service standards for all Indefinite Leave to Remain applications are to complete 100% of straightforward applications within six months.

Where an application is defined as non-straightforward, due to complexity, the customer will be written to within the normal processing time to explain why it will not be decided within the normal standard, and to explain what will happen next.

The published statistics on leave to remain applications that have been processed within service standard can be found in the migration transparency data release. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/in-country-migration-data-february-2018 at:

InC_02: Percentage of In-Country visa applications, for each Route, processed within Service Standards.