Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration is given to serious illness when deciding requests to expedite immigration and visa applications.

Visa applications are assessed on their individual merits and caseworkers will consider any compassionate grounds raised as part of the application assessment. Published policy guidance for each visa route will factor this where relevant. Caseworker guidance for each visa type can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/visas-and-immigration-operational-guidance Where a case may contain individual factors which make it compelling or compassionate then the case will be expedited by UK Visas and Immigration staff and considered under its own merits