Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has taken steps to review family reunification visa mechanisms for people affected by the conflict in Sudan.

Family Reunion allows individuals with protection status in the UK to sponsor their partner or children to stay with or join them here, provided they formed part of the family unit before the sponsor left their country of origin in order to seek protection.

Where an application does not meet the eligibility requirements of the Immigration Rules, decision makers must consider whether there are any exceptional circumstances which would render a refusal a breach of our international obligations. Our policy also makes clear that there is discretion to grant visas outside the Immigration Rules, where there are compelling compassionate factors.

Between 2015 and 2022, we have offered places to almost half a million (481,804) people from all over the world seeking safety. This includes 44,659 family reunion grants since 2015.

There currently are no plans to review the Family Reunion route.