David Crausby – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Crausby on 2016-10-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time for a final decision on a spouse visa application was in each of the last five years.
Mr Robert Goodwill
The average processing time for resolving spouse visa applications in each of the last five years is contained in the attached table:
|
Year Resolved |
Average Days to Resolved |
|
2011 |
40.97 |
|
2012 |
41.47 |
|
2013 |
45.59 |
|
2014 |
60.41 |
|
2015 |
34.91 |
Visit visas defined as those endorsements in the endorsement categories Family Partner and Family Partner Immediate Settlement.
Data only includes applications with a destination of UK or UK(BIVS).
Data extracted on 19 October 2016.
These statistics have been taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers may change as information on that system is updated. The latest quarterly Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics
