Entry Clearances: Graduates

(asked on 25th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many graduate entrepreneur visa holders switched to a skilled workers visa under the new rules announced by her Department on 6 September 2013.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 2nd December 2014

The information available indicate there were 23 grants in 2013 of leave to remain in the UK in the Tier 1 high value migrant and Tier 2 skilled worker routes who were recorded as previously holding Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur status.

It is not possible to determine whether the decisions were made under rules announced on 6 September 2013.

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 July - September 2014’ will be available from the Library of the House and is available from
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.

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