Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the service standard is for completing visa administrative reviews.

Following unprecedented levels of administrative review applications since January 2021, plans to increase resource have been in place since early summer 2021. Newly recruited staff are currently being onboarded with more resource following in the coming months. Overall, the expansion programme will more than double the decision makers working on administrative review applications.

Current timescales for processing administrative review applications are set out at Ask for a visa administrative review: If you're in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk), which states: “Currently, it can take 6 months or more to receive the result of the administrative review. If you haven’t had a decision on your application within 3 months, the Home Office will contact you with an update.”

Applicants’ rights are not affected by the delay in consideration.