Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many decisions made by the UK on applications for family reunification with a beneficiary of international protection were (a) accepted and (b) rejected in 2017.

Information on grants and refusals of Family: Other are published in the Home Office publication ‘Immigration Statistics, July – September 2017’, Visas data tables volume 1, table vi_01_q, available from _https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017.

The “Family: Other” category consists of:
• Family reunion: pre-existing family members (partners, minor children) of a person with refugee leave or humanitarian protection, who has not yet obtained British citizenship;
• From July 2012: dependants who are not partners or children of those with refugee leave or humanitarian protection;
• From July 2012: parents with access rights to a child.

There are a small number of applications for family reunion where leave is granted in exceptional circumstances outside the Immigration Rules which are not included in the Family: Other category.