Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to instruct UK Visas and Immigration to prioritise applications based on the scheduling of repatriation flights.

The Home Office and Foreign & Commonwealth Office work closely together to support British citizens and their dependants who are seeking to use repatriation flights.

Some UK Visa Application Centres (VACs) are resuming services where local restrictions allow, and an effective service is being provided. Services will reopen in phases. For updates to the status of?VACs,?customers can check with:

• TLS contact?if they are in Europe, Africa and parts of the Middle East

• VFS global?for all other countries

Anybody who has immigration queries related to coronavirus can email the Coronavirus Immigration Help Centre. Email:?CIH@homeoffice.gov.uk. Their email must be in English.