Visas: Appeals

(asked on 13th October 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the impact of removing the right of appeal for applicants seeking entry to the UK as a family visitor in June 2013 on the families affected; and whether her Department has made a recent estimate of the number and proportion of family visit visa applications that were successful on re-application since June 2013.


Answered by
Robert Jenrick Portrait
Robert Jenrick
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 23rd October 2023

There is no recent assessment of the impact of the removal in 2013 of this right of appeal. Where the application includes a human rights claim, applicants retain the right of appeal against the refusal of the claim. This is in line with the changes made to the appeals system by the Immigration Act 2014.

There is no recent estimate of the number and proportion of successful reapplications.

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