Written Question·Home Office·UIN 57018

Visas

Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 11 June 2025

Question

Tracy Gilbert

LabourEdinburgh North and Leith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the White Paper entitled Restoring control over the immigration system, published on 12 May 2025, on the UK Ancestry Visa.

Answer

Seema Malhotra
The UK Government values its close cultural and historical ties with its fellow Commonwealth countries and this is reflected by the UK Ancestry visa, which allows Commonwealth citizens with a UK-born grandparent to live and work in the UK.Further details ...

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