Immigration: Applications
Commons · Question 8482 · Tabled 10 Oct 2024 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Kim Johnson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department began using Equifax checks as part of the fee waiver assessment process for leave to remain applications.
Answer
Answered by Seema Malhotra, 21 Oct 2024
The Home Office have had contracts to enable financial checking since at least 2014 and therefore financial checks may have been used as part of fee waiver considerations from this date.As outlined in the Fee Waiver guidance, checks may be undertaken with...