Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time was for (a) visitor and (b) spousal/partner visa applications as of 21 June 2022.

Standard visitor visas are taking on average 6 weeks to process. Information can be found on visit processing times here: Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Spouse / partner visas are taking up to 24 week to process. This increase in time has been advised to applicants and is related to the need to prioritise applications related to the situation in Ukraine.

Average processing times do not form part of any current transparency data for spousal/partner applications and are not published.

The transparency data does, however, include a range of processing data and the latest data can be found at: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)