Visas: Foreign Investment in UK

(asked on 12th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Written Statement of 12 January 2023, HCWS492 on The Tier 1 (Investor) route: Review of operation between 30 June 2008 and 6 April 2015, if she will publish the review in full.


Answered by
Tom Tugendhat Portrait
Tom Tugendhat
Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
This question was answered on 18th January 2023

The Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement of the 12 January 2023 provides the key findings of the review and represents the Home Office’s substantive response in relation to the operation of the Tier 1 Investor visa route between 30th June 2008 and 06th April 2015.

As set out in the Home Secretary’s statement the review found a small minority of individuals connected to the route were at risk of having obtained their wealth through illicit or criminal means.

Given the importance of protecting operational sensitivities in the law enforcement process, and guided by the advice we have received from our operational partners we will not be commenting further.

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