Asylum: Applications

(asked on 18th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the impact of the increase of (a) Ukrainian family visas and (b) Homes for Ukraine visas on the processing of non-Ukrainian asylum and refugee family reunion applications.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 8th June 2022

It has been necessary for the department to flex its resources to allow it to deliver the urgent commitments made to support the people of Ukraine.

This has had an impact on other routes, although we are implementing plans to mitigate this and return to normal timeframes.

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