Refugees: Biometric Residence Permits

(asked on 25th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken nationally was between an individual receiving a positive decision on refugee status and receiving a biometric residence permit in (a) 2017 (b) 2018 (c) 2019 and (d) 2020.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 28th January 2021

The Home Office does not keep data relating to the time it takes to deliver a BRP from point of a positive decision, but it does have service level agreements (SLAs) with partners for the creation and delivery of BRPs. The Home Office can also check whether and how quickly an individual BRP was created and delivered.

The Home Office aims to deliver a BRP within 10 working days of an immigration application being approved.

The DVLA, which produces BRPs, has an SLA to complete 90% of production requests within one working day and the remaining 10% within two working days. While this was met consistently until February 2020 the impacts of Covid-19 restrictions and safe working practices have caused occasional delays of up to four working days since April.

Our delivery partner is required to attempt first delivery of 99% of BRP within two working days of collection from DVLA. This target was met up until February 2020 and is 92% since then. We are working to improve our performance in all areas.

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