Immigration: Afghanistan

(asked on 25th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan citizens have been granted leave to remain since 1 September 2021.


Answered by
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Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 30th November 2021

The Home Office publishes quarterly data on grants and refusals of leave to remain (visa extensions) in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’ on GOV.UK:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

The latest published statistics show that 464 people with Afghan Nationality were granted leave to remain in the third quarter (July to September) 2021. Of this, 385 grants were via a Family route.

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