Speeches

Lord Ahmed – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Ahmed on 2015-11-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the current waiting time for processing of (1) Spouse Visas, (2) Visitor Visas, (3) Student Visas and (4) Entrepreneur Visas.

Lord Bates

The average global processing time for the period July 2014 to June 2015 and the most recent data – which covers the month of June 2015 – on global processing times for spouse, visitor, student and entrepreneur visas are set out in the table below.

Type

Category

Average processing time
(working days) – (Jun-15)

Average processing time
(working days) – (Jul-14 to Jun-15)

Non-Settlement

Visit

7

7

Non-Settlement

Student

6

8

Non-Settlement

T1 Entrepreneur

11

11

Settlement

Spouse

35

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