Jeremy Corbyn – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jeremy Corbyn on 2014-03-31.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent changes have been made in the issuing of visa applications at the Visa Centre in Moscow.

James Brokenshire

In March 2014 the management of the UK’s network of Russian visa application
centres passed from VFS Global to Teleperformance. We are offering a full visa
service in Russia and our global customer service standards continue to apply.

Teleperformance opened all 5 new Visa Application Centres in Russia on time in
March 2014. There was no break in service between the closure of the VFS
centres and the opening of Teleperformance centres. The new Visa Application
Centres are all fully functioning and there are appointments available at all
of them.