Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 36229

Visas: Fees and Charges

Tabled: 6 March 2025
Answered: 29 March 2025

Question

Luke Taylor

Liberal DemocratSutton and Cheam

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will consider reducing the British National Overseas visa holders' requirement for home fee status to three years of continuous residence.

Answer

Janet Daby
To qualify for home fee status in the UK, a person must have settled status or ’a recognised connection’ to the UK, and in the case of persons with settled status, be ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) for three ye...

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