Visas: Voluntary Work

(asked on 22nd October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 5 visas were granted to volunteers in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021.


Answered by
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Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 27th October 2021

The Home Office publishes data on visas in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of applications and the number of granted applications regarding Temporary Work – Charity Worker visas are published in tables Vis_D01 and Vis_D02 of the entry clearance visas applications and outcomes dataset, respectively.

Please note, for the outcomes of applications data, the year and quarter refer to the date at which the case outcome was decided and not the date at which the application was received. If you wish to calculate the grant rate of Temporary Work – Charity Worker visa applications, it is recommended the best estimate is found by calculating the proportion of the number of grants to the total number of resolved cases for each quarter.

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 2021.

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

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