Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Standard Visitor Visas have been granted to Russian citizens in every month during 2022.

The Home Office publishes data on visas in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of granted applications of Visitor visas to Russian nationals are published in table Vis_D02 of the entry clearance visas applications and outcomes dataset. ‘Standard Visitor’ is one of the four types of ‘Visitor’ visas which are aggregated within this dataset, which also include visiting for a Permitted Paid Engagement, the Marriage Visitor visa and visiting the UK in a Chinese Tour Group.

Please note that the published data relate to Russian nationals, regardless of their residency. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending June 2022.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.