The government has been urged to publish a review into “golden visas”, which has been languishing in a drawer in Whitehall for five years.
The tier-one visa route, whereby wealthy individuals could buy the right to live in the UK by investing in British-registered companies, was shut in February following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine amid fears that the system was being abused.
Until then, for £2m, foreign nationals could be granted a visa, or, for more money, UK citizenship.
A review was commissioned by the Home Office in 2018 with a commitment to publish the findings. So far it has not been published, while the government has refused to say when it will be released.
Tom Tugendhat, now a security minister, called on the government to publish the review when he was chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, a plea now repeated by his successor, the Tory MP Alicia Kearns.
