Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps applicants for skilled worker visas need to take if their non-British passport expires while their visa application is under consideration.

Where a person makes an application as a skilled worker from overseas and their passport expires before a decision is made, we will consider the application and, if the application is to be granted, we will write to the person and ask them to provide a new or extended passport. If they do not provide a new or extended passport, we will refuse their application.

Where the person makes an application as a skilled worker from within the UK and their passport expires before a decision is made, we will continue to consider and decide their application. If they are granted permission to stay, they will be issued with a standalone document (a biometric residence or an eVisa) and so their grant of permission is not reliant on them having a valid passport.