Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of skilled worker visa applications submitted by people who reside in Northern Ireland at the time of application have been waiting for a decision for more than three months.

The Home Office does not routinely publish data on this specific issue.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of skilled worker visas which have been processed outside target processing times in our Transparency data.

The Home Office Transparency data sets out how the department is performing against its service standard, which can be found on the GOV.UK webpage: Sponsorship transparency data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)