Migrants

(asked on 27th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of pending applications for a change of conditions to lift the No Recourse to Public Funds restriction, as outlined in the Immigration and Protection data: Q1 2021.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 11th June 2021

UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) constantly monitor intake volumes and will deploy resources flexibly to address increases in the volume of Change of Conditions applications.

Following a peak in quarter 2 of 2020, intake has reduced significantly during the ensuing quarters.

The published data is a ‘snapshot’ of work in progress at the point of publication. The ‘pending’ cases for the most recent quarter can be expected to have been mostly completed in the next quarter, as comparison with the previously published data reveal; the ‘pending’ in Q4 2020 showing as 539 in the February data release has reduced to 39 in the latest release.

Although intake in the most recent quarter has increased by 8%, the data shows that output has increased by 7%, reflecting the dynamic deployment of resource.

The number of applications decided as a proportion of the number of cases received over the published periods has remained consistent at 96% for the most recent data table against 96.8% for the previous table.

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