Written questions

Visas: Applications

Commons · Question 114330 · Tabled 20 Feb 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 2 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Euan Stainbank

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an entry clearance manager can consider a non-English untranslated document in support of a visa.

Answer

Answered by Mike Tapp, 2 Mar 2026

The Immigration Rules set out that where specified documents submitted in support of a visa application are not in English or Welsh, the applicant must provide both the version of the document in the original language and a full translation that can be in...