<p>Our family reunion policy is intended to allow those granted refugee status or humanitarian protection in the UK to sponsor their spouse or partner and/or children under the age of 18 to join them, if they formed part of the family unit before the sponsor fled their country of origin.</p><p>Information regarding processing times and nationality of applicants is not routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>We are committed to improving and speeding up processing times for family reunion applications. We are reviewing processes to streamline decision making to enable us to provide a better service to our applicants.</p><p>We continue to prioritise applications where there is an evidenced urgent or compelling reason to do so.</p>