Asylum: Families
(asked on 10th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many applications they have received for UK visas for family settlement to reunite with a partner or parent who is in the UK as a refugee or with humanitarian protection in each year since 2010; and of those, how many have been granted.
The available information is given below.
Family reunion applications from dependants of those with refugee status or humanitarian protection in the UK (made under Part 11 of the Immigration Rules) are included in the ‘Family: Other’ category within the published Home Office ‘Immigration Statistics’ visa tables, latest edition at, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas.
The vast majority of the ‘Family: Other’ category relate to family reunion and hence the published figures provide a good indication of trends for family reunion cases.
The table below provides the latest data:
'Family: Other' entry clearance visa applications and outcomes: 2010 to 2017
Year | Applications | Resolved | Granted | % | Refused | Withdrawn/Lapsed |
2010 | 6,111 | 6,654 | 4,887 | 73% | 1,664 | 103 |
2011 | 5,143 | 5,536 | 4,306 | 78% | 1,093 | 137 |
2012 | 5,135 | 5,318 | 3,710 | 70% | 1,479 | 129 |
2013 | 6,064 | 6,108 | 4,211 | 69% | 1,797 | 100 |
2014 | 5,639 | 6,658 | 4,596 | 69% | 1,931 | 131 |
2015 | 8,477 | 8,283 | 4,887 | 59% | 3,267 | 129 |
2016 | 8,610 | 9,620 | 6,098 | 63% | 3,472 | 50 |
2017 | 7,439 | 7,543 | 5,237 | 69% | 2,253 | 53 |
Notes: Applications made in a given year may be resolved (granted, refused, withdrawn or lapsed) in a later year. |
Source: Home Office 'Immigration Statistics, year ending June 2018', Visas data tables volume 1, table vi_01_q. |
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