Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Department has a policy in place to ensure that visa applications for members of the same Ukrainian family are processed simultaneously, to help ensure that whole families are able to receive their visas at the same time and travel together.

Applications are normally processed in date order from when documents were uploaded, or after an appointment at a Visa Application Centre (VAC).

However, as part of the Home Office’s commitment to make it easier for applicants to apply to our schemes, Ukrainians with valid passports no longer need to go to a Visa Application Centre to give their biometrics before they come to the UK. This revision to the process can mean that applicants who submitted their applications at the same time, but via different biometric routes, may not receive their visas at the same time.