Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to reduce the time taken to process visa applications.

UK Visas and Immigration are currently operating within their global customer service standards across all of the main legal migration routes for customers who make an entry clearance application from overseas.

Details of current performance against these customer service standards are updated regularly and can be found at:

Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).