Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what average length of time it currently takes for documentation necessary to return home to be issued to an illegal immigrant found in the UK without such documentation who is from (a) India, (b) Bangladesh, (c) Pakistan, (d) Nigeria and (e) China.

The information below sets out the average number of days taken from application to agreement for each country. The information relates to emergency travel documents agreed by the countries concerned in financial year 2013/14.

Applications for travel documents are usually processed more quickly when an individual provides accurate supporting evidence of their identity and nationality.

In some cases the process may take a lot longer where identity or nationality is disputed.

Average days
Bangladesh 129
China 44
India 131
Nigeria 101
Pakistan 83

Internal Home Office management information has been used to provide a response to this question. These figures are not quality assured under National Statistics protocols and are subject to change due to internal data quality checking. Figures provided from this source do not constitute part of National Statistics and should be treated as provisional.