Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will take steps to ensure that covid-19 pandemic travel restrictions are taken into account when assessing evidence of relationships for future UK visa applications.

The Home Office will take into account the impact of covid-19 pandemic travel restrictions on relationships. This can affect individual applicants in different ways, and full details of the evidential requirements for relationships can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/uk-family-visa/provide-information.

Details of the concessions the Government has already put in place as a result of the covid-19 pandemic can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-for-uk-visa-applicants-and-temporary-uk-residents.