Seema Malhotra

69126 • Immigration: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Ukrainian Permission Extension Scheme will be extended automatically; and whether her Department is considering a visa route for Ukrainians that could could provide a pathway to permanent settlement.

68504 • Visas: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of the report by the Migration Advisory Committee entitled Family Route: Financial Requirements Review, published June 2025.

68660 • Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to support (a) social and (b) cultural assimilation of legal immigrants arriving in the UK.

68664 • Visas: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the e-visa process is (a) inclusive and (b) accessible.

68665 • Visas: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support people having problems with E-visas.

68666 • Visas: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the independent report entitled Windrush Lessons Learned Review by Wendy Williams, updated 31 March 2020, what steps she has taken to ensure that the eVisas process provides adequate (a) safeguards, (b) fairness and (c) accountability for applicants.

68667 • Visas: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to issue physical proof of status alongside eVisas to enhance accessibility.

68559 • Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delays in Ukrainian Visa Extension Schemes applications on Ukrainians in the Newton Abbot constituency.

68938 • Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been granted entry clearance to the UK under the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, (b) Afghan citizens resettlement scheme and (c) Afghanistan Response Route.

68954 • Migrants: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Destitute Domestic Violence Concession to include all migrant survivors of domestic abuse.

69082 • Visas: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to waive the Secure English Language Test requirement for foundation year students applying for study visas from the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

66308 • Visas: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department has not published service standards for the time taken for applications for Family visas made on the basis of a person’s private life to be considered.

67953 • Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce decision times for children’s applications under the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme.

67954 • Immigration: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 64542 on Immigration, what steps she is taking to speed up decisions being taken on applications for (a) leave in line and (b) status in line.

68079 • UK Border Force: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former Seasonal Workforce officers for the UK Border Force were successful in gaining employment through regular recruitment processes after their contracts were ended in 2024.

68248 • UK Border Force: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Border Force workers were employed on Seasonal Workforce Contracts in 2024.

68249 • UK Border Force: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of the Border Force Seasonal Worker programme was for the last financial year of its operation.

68250 • UK Border Force: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many vacancies for full time Border Force roles were being advertised at the point at which the Border Force Seasonal Workforce programme was discontinued.

68251 • UK Border Force: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former Border Force seasonal workers have gone on to be employed by Border Force since the termination of the seasonal workforce programme.

68204 • Visas: Life Sciences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure the biomedical sector has (a) efficient and (b) cost-effective visa routes for attracting world-leading scientists to the UK.