Workflow backlog understood to be behind often long wait for refugees to hear of visa approval
The government has acknowledged that processing problems within the
Latest figures show that just one in five of those issued visas under the Homes for Ukraine scheme had arrived in the UK. MPs suggested that the relatively small number of people travelling was the consequence of visas not being issued to family units simultaneously, with approval of children’s visas often taking several weeks longer.
The Home Office minister Kevin Foster dismissed as nonsense reports that there was a deliberate Home Office policy to withhold children’s visas. “I am aware of the claims that have been made, the false claims I have to say, that there is a deliberate move to withhold individual visas. Those are absolute nonsense,” he told the Commons.
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