Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether advice from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs against travel to Russia would qualify as an insurmountable obstacle as set out in Ex.2 of the Immigration Rules Appendix FM: family members, published on 25 February 2016.

The application of Section Ex. is fact sensitive, and consideration is on a case-by-case basis, considering a range of factors including, but not limited to, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office advice.