Robert Jenrick: Since 2015, over half a million people were offered safe and legal routes into the UK. This includes over 28.600 individuals resettled to the UK under our global resettlement schemes. We continue to provide the most vulnerable refugees in need of protection a route to safety directly from regions of conflict and instability through these schemes, which include the UK Resettlement Scheme,...
Robert Jenrick: The data below shows the volume of passport applications from residents of the Republic of Ireland that were processed by the passport office in Belfast for each year from 2017 to 2019: 2017 9,812 2018 9,401 2019 9,936 Following the introduction of a new passport application processing system that distributes work digitally across all available work locations, the data for the...
Robert Jenrick: The Home Office releases weekly upgrades, including maintenance, to the Atlas caseworking system. Such releases are completed without the Atlas caseworking system, or services like BRP production, being down at all and so there is no impact upon caseworking or BRP production. Where a maintenance release requires the system to be taken down temporarily, it is done so in quiet periods and for a...
Robert Jenrick: Since 2015, over half a million people were offered safe and legal routes into the UK. This includes over 28.600 individuals resettled to the UK under our global resettlement schemes. We continue to provide the most vulnerable refugees in need of protection a route to safety directly from regions of conflict and instability through these schemes, which include the UK Resettlement Scheme,...
Robert Jenrick: The Home Office does not publish data concerning farm visits under the seasonal workers scheme. The Seasonal Worker team undertakes farm visits to check sponsor compliance by interviewing farm managers, checking worker accommodation and speaking to sponsored seasonal workers. If evidence of underpayment is identified, that is investigated in line with published Sponsor Guidance and action...
Robert Jenrick: We do not publish the information requested. This is because the information is not available in a reportable format and providing this information could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Robert Jenrick: Recent independent evaluations of two Home Office funded pilot projects in the UK found no definitive evidence that community-based case management focused alternatives to immigration detention led to the quicker resolution of individual cases nor represented better value for money. We therefore have no plans to progress any further community-based case management focused alternatives to...
Robert Jenrick: Food options are provided which cater for special dietary, cultural or religious requirements, including additional food or meals as required to meet the nutritional needs of asylum seekers for whom three daily meals may be insufficient. As our cohort are of mixed religions and faiths, we offer facilities on-site via a dedicated mixed faith prayers and reflection area as well as facilities to...
Robert Jenrick: The Home Office keeps fees for immigration and nationality applications under review. However, there are no plans to reduce fees for applications for visas or British Citizenship. It is the government’s policy that those who use and benefit most from the immigration system should contribute towards the cost of operating it, reducing the burden on the UK taxpayer. The Home Office provides...
Robert Jenrick: In September the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office jointly announced that, during the next year, adults applying to renew their passport online will be signposted to the NHS Organ Donor Register. We will continue to work with the NHS Blood and Transplant Service to look further at how the passport application process might help raise awareness of how to register an...
Robert Jenrick: Where a person who has been given leave outside the rules but is unable to return home they should apply for an extension of leave. Further information about applying for an extension can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-to-ex tend-stay-in-the-uk-flrhro. Each case will be assessed on its merits. If they are unable to afford the fee then a fee waiver...
Robert Jenrick: Officials from UK Visas and Immigration have already engaged with the organisers of the WOMEX International Music Convention (2024) in August this year. UKVI officials will continue to work with the organisers to support the visa application process for artists and other professionals.
Robert Jenrick: The government is fully supportive of businesses involved in delivering the UK’s net zero ambitions. The wind farm sector has many roles which meet the requirements of the UK’s main economic migration route, the Skilled Worker route. The offshore wind farm worker immigration rules concession ended on 30 April. There are no plans to reinstate the concession given the industry has a visa...
Robert Jenrick: The information on the number of tests taken in each quarter in relation to citizenship and settlement applications can be found within the Visas and citizenship data on gov.uk here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transpar ency-data The latest transparency data was published on 23 November 2023.
Robert Jenrick: We are unable to provide this data as we do not record data relating to an individual’s ancestor.
Robert Jenrick: The Home Office has continually remained within published service standard for straightforward applications within the Student route. We work closely with the education sector and through public communications campaigns to encourage students to apply as early as possible and to check they have submitted the right documents, to reduce delays. Customers applying to the Student route from...
Robert Jenrick: We have remained continually within service standard for straightforward standard, priority, and super priority Student visa applications. Where applications are complex and we require further information or checks, we may take to take longer to reach a decision. This is to ensure the applicant meets the requirements of the immigration rules and prevent abuse of our immigration system.
Robert Jenrick: Information on how many people extend their permission within the Student or Graduate route can be found at: Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Where eligible, students may also apply to switch into an alternative appropriate category. We do not routinely publish data on how many students switch into other immigration categories.
Robert Jenrick: The data requested cannot be provided as it comes from live operational databases that have not been quality assured.
Robert Jenrick: Passport applications are distributed across offices throughout the UK. The data for the volume of passports issued following a successful application by office, and the data for the number of applications processed by office, is not held in a reportable format. The data for applications where the holding of a non-British passport has been declared is not broken down by the issuing country of...
