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Asylum

Original answer

Information on asylum claimants who were granted leave to remain under the 2003 family indefinite leave to remain exercise is available from the annual Statistical Bulletin Asylum Statistics United Kingdom. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the house and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at"http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html"Information on the dependants of asylum claimants who were granted leave to remain under the 2003 family indefinite leave to remain exercise is not available and could only be obtained by examination of individual case records at disproportionate cost.Information on the 40 nationalities that received the most grants of indefinite leave to remain is in the following table.The Border and Immigration Agency is no longer reporting on the performance of the Family ILR exercise. The small number of remaining cases are being processed with other legacy cases, not as a separate workstream, and will be reported on as part of normal business.

Grants of ILR issued under the Family ILR exercise as at 7 December 2007¹,²,³, excluding dependants
Country of nationality	Total
Serbia and Montenegro	3,960
Sri Lanka	1,965
Turkey	1,775
Pakistan	1,245
Nigeria	1,175
Dem. Rep. Congo	955
Colombia	720
Afghanistan	710
Kenya	700
Ecuador	685
Ghana	620
Somalia	600
Poland	580
China	570
Iran	470
Sierra Leone	415
India	395
Lithuania	380
Uganda	375
Croatia	360
Angola	345
Albania	345
Iraq	295
Algeria	270
Czech Republic	255
Ukraine	250
Bangladesh	235
Rwanda	230
Ivory Coast	220
Tanzania	210
Romania	190
Congo	170
Eritrea	165
Burundi	160
Russia	155
Zimbabwe	155
Palestinian Authority	155
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	155
Jamaica	140
Cameroon	135
Other nationalities	1,975
Grand total	24,875
¹ Figures are rounded to the nearest five, and may not sum to the total shown due to rounding.
² Main asylum applicants.
³ This information is based on internal management information and therefore provisional.

It has since been corrected.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

473 c336-7W (477 c5-6MC); 177410

Session

2007-08

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Notes

Answer corrected at 13 June 2008 477 5-6MC

Subjects

Asylum

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