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Written question asked by Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour) on Friday, 12 July 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 16 July 2019. It was answered by Caroline Nokes (Conservative) on Thursday, 18 July 2019 on behalf of the Home Office.

Visas

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for visitor visas from (a) US, (b) Russian, (c) Indian and (d) Chinese citizens were (i) granted and (ii) declined in each of the last five years.

Answer

Applications for visit visas are considered against Appendix V of the Immigration Rules and on a case by case basis. Detailed information on how UK Visas and Immigration makes decisions on visitor cases is published at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visit-guidance.

Information on total entry clearance visas (the majority of which are visitor visas) broken down by nationality and outcome (grants, refusals, withdrawals, lapsed) is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics Visas volume 1 table vi_02_q at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019-data-tables.

Please note that the large majority of US nationals coming to the UK as visitors do not require an entry clearance visa, as shown in the Immigration Rules at (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-v-visitor-rules).

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
276516
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Visas
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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