Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the standard of service that customers are receiving from UK Visas and Immigration; and if she will make a statement.

Average processing times do not form part of any current transparency data for family applications.

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)

The Home Office has been currently prioritising Ukraine Visa Schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We are communicating directly with customers to explain that applications for study, work and family visas have been taking longer to process at this time.

Current average processing times:

Standard visitor visas - 6 weeks

Student visas - 3 weeks

Work visas - 6 weeks.

The service standard for overseas Marriage and Family applications has been extended from 60 days to 120 days.