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Mr. Cyril Smith
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average length of time elapsing in Islamabad between a request for a visa to enter the United Kingdom for permanent settlement and the granting of an interview to consider such application.
Mr. Raison
The available information on the interval between receipt of an application for entry clearance for immediate settlement in the United Kingdom and the date of the first interview is given, for those in the main settlement queue, in table 9 of the Command Paper " Control of Immigration Statistics United Kingdom 1979" (Cmnd. 7875).