Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects UK Visas and Immigration to complete its reconsideration of the cases referred to by the Rt hon. Member for East Ham in the letter of 28 March, reference ST103787.

An agreement to reconsider the application was provided by the Decision Making Centre (DMC) on 25^th April 2023. The reconsideration of these applications took place on 20^th July 2023. The applicants were contacted by the DMC on the 24^th July 2023 about the resubmission of their passports to the Visa Application Centre and on 26^th July 2023 the applicants submitted their passports for the completion of the visa process. The standard time scale for reconsiderations is three months and this reconsideration was completed within that three month timescale.