Migrants: Coronavirus

(asked on 17th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prepare for potential changes to the number of No Recourse to Public Funds change of conditions applications as a result of the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 25th May 2021

The Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is currently extended until 30 September 2021. UK Visas and Immigration constantly monitor intake volumes and adjust resources accordingly. Whilst it is not necessarily an automatic consequence that change of conditions applications will increase at the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, UK Visas and Immigration will respond as appropriate if this is the case.

Published transparency data on Change of Conditions applications can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-protection-data-february-2021 At the end of the last calendar year the average turnaround for Change of Conditions applications was 18 days.

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