Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
(asked on 29th August 2014) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 2 General Visas have been issued to international students since the withdrawal of the Tier 1 Post-Study Work Visa.
The available information relates to Tier 2 General grants of an extension of
stay in the UK to people who were previously students and is given in the table
below:
| Year | Broad previous category | PBS - Tier 2 Sponsored with a job General | ||||
| 2012 | Study | 2,538 | ||||
| 2013 | Study | 4,108 | ||||
| Source: Extensions data table expc_01_w Immigration Statistics April-June 2014 | ||||||
| Table notes | ||||||
| 1. Data for 2013 are provisional figures. | ||||||
| 2. Excludes EEA and Swiss nationals. | ||||||
| 3. Includes reconsideration cases and the outcome of appeals. | ||||||
The Home Office publishes annual statistics on grants of an extension by
previous category in tables expc_01 to expc_01_o within the ‘Immigration
Statistics’ release.
A copy of the latest release, ‘Immigration Statistics April - June 2014’ is
available from the Library of the House and from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-stati
stics-quarterly-release.
Information on the previous immigration status of those issued an entry
clearance visa (applications made outside the UK) is not available.