Visas: Families

(asked on 29th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many family reunion visa applications have been rejected in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 16th April 2018

The available information relates to outcomes (grants, refusals, withdrawn, lapsed) in the Family: Other category, the large majority of whom are family reunion cases, and is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-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.

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