Visas: Syria
(asked on 28th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications by Syrian nationals resident in Syria for UK visitor visas have been (a) received and (b) granted in each of the last five years.
The available information is given in the table below, relating to all Syrian nationals.
Entry clearance visitor visa applications and resolutions (grants, refusals, withdrawn or lapsed): All Syrian nationals
| Applications |
| of which | |||
Year |
| Decisions | Granted | Refused | Withdrawn or lapsed |
|
2010 | 6,181 | 6,157 | 4,349 | 1,724 | 84 |
|
2011 | 6,681 | 6,640 | 4,596 | 1,965 | 79 |
|
2012 | 5,366 | 5,368 | 2,691 | 2,604 | 73 |
|
2013 | 5,432 | 5,421 | 2,537 | 2,805 | 79 |
|
2014 | 5,370 | 5,477 | 1,495 | 3,910 | 72 |
|
Source:
Immigration Statistics July - September 2015, Home Office, tables vi_01_q, vi_06_q_o and corresponding datasets.
Notes. Information is not available on centrally collated statistical databases on the country of residence of applicants. Corresponding data for the calendar year 2015 will be published on 25 February 2016. Some applications made in a particular year may be resolved (granted, refused, withdrawn or lapsed) in a subsequent year.
The latest quarterly Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, July-September 2015’, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics