Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unsuccessful student visa applications have been overturned on appeal in each of the last five years; and what was the average time taken between receiving the initial application and overturning the initial rejection in that same period.

A student visa application does not have a right of appeal, instead a student can apply for an administrative review when they feel the decision is incorrect. The information pertaining to the numbers and average times of administrative reviews is not released publicly.

Information on the number of Study entry clearance visa applications and decisions (i.e. grants, refusals, withdrawn and lapsed cases) are published quarterly in the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, Visas data tables volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017”