Immigration: Married People

(asked on 1st February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people with spouses or partners with UK citizenship have (a) applied for, (b) been refused and (c) been granted indefinite leave to remain in each of the last five years.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 9th February 2016

The available information is given in the tables below:

Grants and refusals of settlement (indefinite leave to remain) to spouses/partners

on the basis of marriage to/a relationship with a British citizen or settled person

Year

All Partners (spouses and partners: UK or settled persons)

of which:

Sponsor is a British Citizen (1)

Grants

Refusals

Grants

Refusals

2010

53,147

1,116

46,572

:

2011

41,684

534

36,393

:

2012

37,399

498

32,741

:

2013

50,498

774

43,633

:

2014

28,230

968

24,042

:

Source:
Immigration Statistics July - September 2015, Home Office, table se_04 and subsets of data in se_02

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/476908/settlement-q3-2015-tabs.ods

Table notes

(1) excludes unmarried partners

: = Not available.

Information on applications and refusals for spouses or partners of UK citizens is not available and could only be produced at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case records.

Corresponding data for calendar year 2015 is planned to be published on 25 August 2016.

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