Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of UK Visas and Immigration working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in relation to the (a) prioritisation of cases and (b) availability and 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. The FCO are ultimately responsible for the scheduling of flights and who is able to access them.

Some UK Visa Application Centres (VACs) are resuming services where local restrictions allow, and an effective service can be 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.