Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 2 intra-company transfer visa applications were (a) received and (b) refused in each of the last five years.
The information is provided in the table below.
Entry clearance visa applications and cases resolved (granted, refused, withdrawn/lapsed): Intra-company transfers | ||||||
(including dependants) | ||||||
Year | Applications | Cases Resolved | of which | |||
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| Granted | Refused | Withdrawn/lapsed | |
2011 | 42,229 | 41,946 | 40,644 | 1,107 | 195 | |
2012 | 48,704 | 48,158 | 47,218 | 813 | 127 | |
2013 | 54,965 | 55,422 | 54,868 | 476 | 78 | |
2014 | 61,089 | 61,010 | 60,454 | 460 | 96 | |
2015 | 59,038 | 59,405 | 58,931 | 419 | 55 | |
Notes | ||||||
Applications do not equal cases resolved. Applications made in a year may be resolved in a subsequent year |
The latest quarterly Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visa applications, grants and refusals by category are published in ‘Immigration Statistics’, Visas volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition available from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-january-to-march-2016/list-of-tables#visas