Visas: Ministers of Religion
(asked on 3rd March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 2 (Minister of Religion) visa applications have been refused in each of the last five years.
The requested information is given in the table below:
Entry clearance visa resolutions (grants, refusals, withdrawn or lapsed): Tier 2 Minister of Religion
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Year | Resolved | of which Granted | Refused | Withdrawn or lapsed |
2009 | 459 | 372 | 83 | 4 |
2010 | 468 | 365 | 97 | 6 |
2011 | 433 | 342 | 86 | 5 |
2012 | 365 | 303 | 61 | 1 |
2013 | 524 | 441 | 79 | 4 |
2014 | 501 | 398 | 99 | 4 |
2015 | 492 | 411 | 79 | 2 |
Note: Tier 2 Visas were introduced in November 2008, and replaced pre-PBS visas. | ||||
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The latest quarterly Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, October-December 2015’, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics