Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact on the processing times for applications of the decision to suspend the (a) priority and (b) super-priority services for visa applications on the processing times for applications.

From mid-March 2022, UKVI temporarily suspended Priority visa services for new family overseas visa applications, in order to temporarily deploy resource to process applications made in response to the humanitarian crisis arising from the invasion of Ukraine.

On 09 January 2023, UKVI re-introduced Priority visa services for customers with an outstanding family overseas visa application.

On 20 February 2023 UKVI re-introduced Priority visa services for customers with a new overseas family visa application.

The Super Priority Visa service is not available for overseas Family visa applications. It was not available prior to the suspension of Priority Visa services.