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Visas: Entry Clearances

Answer

The number of visas issued by each visa-issuing post in the years 2003-07 inclusive is given in the following table.

Number of visa applications issued for all the posts in last five years
Post	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Abidjan (BE)¹	2,027	2,401	0	0	0
Abu Dhabi (BE)	20,583	21,280	17,463	20,338	17,997
Abuja (BHC)	22,479	32,051	37,424	28,973	29,841
Accra (BHC)	36,230	32,480	24,392	22,489	20,330
Addis Ababa (BE)	5,147	6,445	6,824	3,760	4,642
Algiers (BE)	11,148	8,911	7,176	8,386	9,058
Almaty (BE)	6,809	8,354	10,067	15,633	15,674
Almaty (BE)²	6,809	8,354	10,067	15,633	10,169
Amman (BE)	11,271	14,135	12,686	14,572	11,561
Amsterdam (BCG)	11,746	10,199	7,313	6,452	7,038
Ankara (BE)	5,003	14,632	20,717	15,776	18,261
Antananarivo (BE)³	289	293	280	0	0
Ashgabat (BE)	1,626	2,297	1,800	1,226	1,046
Asmara (BE)	0	333	307	177	46
Athens (BE)	829	1,168	1,718	1,371	1,328
Baghdad (BE)	0	744	740	872	958
Bahrain (BE)	10,913	9,556	9,514	10,826	10,276
Baku (BE)	3,078	3,945	4,421	4,772	5,029
Bandar Seri Begawan (BE)	1,494	1,472	2,221	3,349	2,070
Bangkok (BE)	32,358	40,192	38,054	37,884	40,148
Banjul (BHC)	4,701	4,749	4,962	4,335	4,094
Basra (BCG)4	0	0	37	128	0
Beijing (BE)	51,165	56,982	53,606	70,120	71,248
Beirut (BE)	7,157	8,668	8,709	7,193	8,546
Belgrade (BE)	15,183	14,719	14,802	15,657	15,282
Belmopan (BHC)	60	40	0	0	0
Berlin (BE)	439	348	343	352	354
Bogota (BE)	13,548	13,700	13,692	14,864	16,871
Brasilia	134	119	113	223	200
Bratislava (BE)	20,884	266	239	278	96
Bridgetown (BHC)	1,410	1,929	2,038	2,764	2,122
Brussels (BE)	4,748	5,974	6,409	6,002	5,813
Bucharest (BE)	27,744	27,663	32,210	34,550	1,252
Budapest (BE)	1,963	1,774	2,009	1,953	1,304
Buenos Aires (BE)	623	752	965	1,055	1,070
Cairo (BE)	20,753	20,879	21,769	25,033	24,815
Canberra (BHC)	32,797	39,300	39,164	38,267	33,143
Caracas (BE)	455	488	789	1,091	1,402
Casablanca (BCG)5	5,883	2,921	5,796	5,381	0
Chennai (BDHC)	50,483	64,930	75,870	93,899	97,172
Chicago (BCG)	13,096	17,954	16,065	15,333	14,905
Chisinau	0	1,144	2,739	2,794	2,209
Chongqing (BCG)	3,446	4,433	5,515	6,541	7,528
Colombo (BHC)	19,653	20,756	19,184	23,474	20,780
Copenhagen (BE)	3,063	3,301	3,245	3,533	3,307
Dakar (BE)	1,399	1,399	1,657	2,371	2,805
Damascus (BE)	5,664	5,611	5,951	7,526	2,546
Dar Es Salaam (BHC)	6,919	7,392	6,767	7,103	6,536
Dhaka (BHC)	23,004	21,024	27,776	29,403	25,139
Doha (BE)	11,560	12,116	13,368	18,218	18,265
Dubai (BE)	31,858	35,540	36,711	44,539	38,570
Dublin (BE)	12,325	11,727	12,852	13,837	11,803
Dushanbe (BE)	0	0	4	23	14
Dusseldorf (BE)	31,974	32,610	29,328	27,345	20,462
Freetown (BHC)	6,076	5,191	5,160	5,443	3,928
Gaborone (BHC)	1,216	1,906	1,669	1,866	1,896
Geneva (BC)	10,016	10,346	10,653	10,718	9,531
Georgetown (BHC)	2,227	1,423	3,267	3,556	2,943
Guangzhou (BC)	25,455	32,713	26,372	31,075	33,978
Hanoi (BE)	3,721	4,813	4,933	5,487	6,464
Harare (BHC)	16,744	19,207	15,683	11,842	7,870
Havana (BE)	2,187	1,909	1,997	2,468	2,222
Helsinki (BE)	840	990	1,077	1,239	1,261
Hong Kong (BC)	7,004	11,508	11,821	12,700	12,750
Islamabad (BHC)	77,026	96,027	88,040	108,062	91,912
Istanbul (BCG)	52,527	29,810	38,309	52,209	53,694
Jakarta (BE)	12,725	13,442	13,285	14,382	16,392
Jedda (BCG)	17,144	20,349	19,436	20,946	20,825
Jerusalem (BCG)	1,844	1,720	1,725	1,631	1,517
Kampala (BHC)	10,972	7,698	6,433	7,008	7,407
Karachi (BDHC)	2,167	9,470	20,395	25,936	15,110
Kathmandu (BE)	3,821	3,842	9,183	13,890	11,162
Khartoum (BE)	4,794	5,057	5,614	7,147	6,806
Kiev (BE)	20,780	27,040	27,930	31,759	33,061
Kingston (BHC)	15,717	12,773	10,370	10,263	10,974
Kinshasa (BE)	2,073	3,062	3,322	2,827	3,282
Kolkata (BDHC)	11,337	12,857	14,588	18,319	17,156
Kuala Lumpur (BE)	5,016	10,158	8,724	9,078	10,786
Kuwait City (BE)	44,147	41,545	47,111	46,869	41,971
La Paz (BE)	166	244	213	334	296
Lagos (BDHC)	62,595	86,739	84,526	74,577	74,059
Lilongwe (BHC)	562	1,065	1,693	2,518	3,238
Lima (BE)	3,761	3,791	3,624	4,267	4,436
Lisbon (BE)	2,102	2,639	2,495	3,300	2,092
Los Angeles (BCG)	22,169	29,440	27,790	28,468	25,726
Luanda (BE)	2,419	3,000	3,131	3,173	3,660
Lusaka (BHC)	4,454	5,116	5,127	5,377	5,377
Luxembourg (BE)	507	516	0	0	0
Madrid (BC)	6,377	8,547	8,380	7,742	6,923
Manila (BE)	25,173	26,457	29,387	34,178	33,737
Maputo (BHC)	778	850	818	147	0
Maseru (BHC)6	121	6	0	0	0
Mbabane (BHC)7	397	370	0	0	0
Mexico City (BE)	1,134	2,582	3,213	3,441	3,353
Minsk (BE)	9,185	10,508	10,456	10,144	10,153
Montevideo (BE)	58	64	56	67	61
Moscow (BE)	78,178	92,669	104,747	119,513	120,222
Mumbai (BHC)	85,072	102,861	117,708	136,613	127,708
Muscat (BE)	10,686	9,813	9,664	9,758	9,491
Nairobi (BHC)	15,455	16,179	12,822	13,846	13,455
Nassau (BHC)8	219	91	0	0	0
New Delhi (BHC)	76,677	84,694	99,386	114,986	109,756
New York (BCG)	49,198	59,278	54,681	54,079	47,801
Nicosia (BHC)	6,073	5,117	4,346	7,277	4,816
Oslo (BE)	4,226	4,054	4,027	4,159	3,269
Ottawa (BHC)	19,381	22,058	21,344	20,304	18,435
Panama City (BE)	242	263	387	181	150
Paris (BE)	26,237	27,526	25,965	28,725	21,857
Port Louis (BHC)	2,584	3,184	3,659	3,348	3,029
Port Moresby (BHC)	130	124	157	107	80
Port of Spain (BHC)	1,935	3,096	3,228	2,856	2,274
Port Vila9	8	2	5	0	0
Prague (BE)	3,215	1,536	1,281	2,167	2,911
Pretoria (BCG)	27,490	34,518	33,761	24,300	21,534
Quito (BE)	2,521	2,441	2,393	2,941	2,618
Rabat (BE)	0	0	0	0	8,011
Rangoon (BE)	1,150	1,225	1,781	1,725	1,939
Reykjavik (BE)	319	411	394	684	289
Riga (BE)	1,567	1,843	1,928	2,179	2,215
Rio de Janeiro	1,445	2,793	7,232	6,246	6,877
Riyadh (BE)	22,020	26,827	30,747	36,207	40,069
Rome (BE)	12,975	13,036	13,910	12,213	8,991
San Salvador (BE)¹0	25	0	0	0	0
Sanaa (BE)	2,657	2,866	2,653	2,905	2,495
Santiago (BE)	1,027	987	1,271	1,155	1,051
Santo DOMINGO (BE)	1,074	1,058	1,420	1,280	1,563
Sarajevo (BE)	3,070	2,963	2,964	3,012	3,098
Seoul (BE)	2,858	9,299	10,937	9,934	9,415
Shanghai (BC)	21,912	27,800	27,388	39,280	40,349
Singapore (BHC)	5,005	7,216	7,046	7,075	7,349
Skopje (BE)	4,820	4,336	4,548	5,252	6,045
Sofia (BE)	21,372	20,987	23,517	25,275	453
St. Petersburg (BCG)	13,472	15,927	19,728	20,113	22,073
Stockholm (BE)	4,616	4,573	4,615	4,198	3,416
Suva (BHC)	1,235	1,144	964	757	989
Taipei (BTO)	31,717	37,605	35,614	38,300	34,532
Tallinn (BE)	682	685	891	1,095	955
Tashkent (BE)	2,590	2,155	2,241	1,392	2,644
Tbilisi (BE)	2,935	3,042	3,293	3,852	4,291
Tegucigalpa (BE)¹¹	562	0	0	0	0
Tehran (BE)	23,668	27,951	28,526	35,777	31,754
Tel Aviv (BE)	1,481	2,470	3,976	2,548	1,906
Tirana (BE)	4,419	6,814	10,063	8,334	6,952
Tokyo (BE)	6,232	17,737	17,246	16,956	14,855
Tripoli (BE)	10,838	13,270	14,655	16,342	11,548
Tunis (BE)	4,151	6,044	6,009	6,037	6,043
UKvisas, London¹²	0	79	875	841	1,049
Ulaanbaatar (BE)	1,019	837	797	1,139	2,118
Valletta (BHC)	1,116	697	503	469	381
Victoria (BHC)	185	270	278	253	202
Vienna (BE)	2,914	2,599	2,656	2,595	2,119
Vilnius (BE)	1,802	685	330	335	326
Warsaw (BE)	3,713	2,275	1,172	1,345	1,419
Wellington (BHC)	9,148	10,232	10,376	10,819	10,121
Windhoek (BHC)	1,101	1,782	537	254	0
Yaounde	2,990	2,802	2,908	2,659	3,169
Yekaterinburg (BCG)	4,424	6,399	7,777	8,778	8,602
Yerevan (BE)	1,072	1,221	1,441	1,592	1,719
Zagreb (BE)	14,811	14,508	14,660	2,901	974
Grand total	1,779,814	2,007,207	2,086,078	2,261,905	2,086,906
¹ Closed May 2006 .
² Closed August 2007.
³ Closed August 2005.
4 Moved to air station March 2007.
5 Closed October 2007.
6 Closed August 2005.
7 Closed September 2005.
8 Closed April 2005.
9 Closed October 2005.
¹0 Closed August 2003.
¹¹ Closed January 2004.
¹² Diplomatic visas.
BE = British Embassy
BHC = British High Commission
BDHC = British Deputy High Commission
BCG = British Consulate-General
BTO = British Trade Office
RO = regional Office
Note:
The data is unpublished and should be used for information purposes only. Also this data includes all the endorsement category.
Date Range:
1 January 2003 to 31 December 2007.
Source:
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Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

471 c507-10W; 181626

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Entry clearances Visas

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