§ Mr. RaynsfordTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what arrangements are being made for applications from people residing in Iran for family reunion with relatives granted refugee status in Britain to be processed without requiring applicants to travel to another country to make the application. [18779]
§ Mr. BaldryThe embassy in Tehran cannot normally handle such applications because the number of UK-based staff there is limited. However the embassy does have discretion to consider applications in exceptionally compassionate circumstances.