EXTENDED UK VISA PROCESSING TIME-UPDATE FOR UK VISAS

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The Home Office is devoting a significant amount of resources to processing applications filed for the Ukraine visa schemes, increasing the processing time for all UK visa applications.

Applications that come from countries outside the UK are particularly impacted. Both the Ukraine Family Scheme and the Home for Ukraine Scheme have received almost 130,000 applications. The processing timeframes for all other visas, including business, tourist, student, and family ones, have increased by a factor of two due to the additional load on the Home Office.
Presently, work, visit, and student visas submitted abroad take around 6 weeks of processing time after the candidate offers their biometric information. Family visas applied from abroad might take up to 6 months for processing.

In most countries globally, priority processing, which could typically be purchased for an additional fee to shorten the time it takes to receive a decision, has also been eliminated for new long-term visa applications. It is accessible for brand-new tourist visas in a few places. The particular day that processing times will resume their usual course is unknown.