Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of the Ukrainian refugee crisis on her Department’s ability to process ordinary immigration applications in a timely manner.

The Home Office is currently prioritising applications made under its Ukraine Schemes, in response to the humanitarian crisis arising from the invasion of Ukraine. As a result, customers with standard applications in study, work, and family routes may experience some delays in the processing of their application.

We have also suspended a number of Paid for Priority and Super Priority services so staff working on these could be reallocated to other work, including our Ukraine Schemes.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.