Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) average and (b) longest processing time was for documents to be issued following a decision by his Department's post-decision casework unit in each of the last eight years.

There is no single overarching post-decision casework unit within UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI). We are therefore unable to provide the staffing, caseload or processing time information requested.

Within UKVI there are a number of units that consider further applications after an initial decision has been made. The scope and handling of work conducted by these units depends on the category of application originally submitted.