Written Question·Home Office·UIN 63598

Immigration: Hong Kong

Tabled: 30 June 2025
Answered: 8 July 2025

Question

Daisy Cooper

Liberal DemocratSt Albans

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing additional resource to the priority service for processing Indefinite Leave to Remain applications on the BNO route for Hong Kongers.

Answer

Seema Malhotra
The Priority Visa Service for BNO (British National Overseas) Indefinite Leave to Remain applications was introduced on 8 September 2023. Straightforward applications are processed within 5 days of biometric enrolment. Sufficient resource is allocated to ...

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