Overseas Visitors: Middle East
(asked on 7th September 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for entry clearance visas were (a) made, (b) resolved, (c) issued, (d) refused and (e) lapsed for (i) the occupied Palestinian territories and (ii) Israel in the last year for which figures are available.
The latest available information is given in the table below.
Entry clearance visa applications resolved, granted, refused, lapsed and withdrawn: Year ending June 2016 |
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| Applications | Resolved | of which |
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| Granted | % | Refused | % | Withdrawn | Lapsed |
Israel | 1,097 | 1,094 | 967 | 88% | 118 | 11% | 9 | 0 |
Occupied Palestinian Territories | 4,742 | 4,694 | 2,774 | 59% | 1,863 | 40% | 57 | 0 |
Table notes: Figures include visitor visas and transit visas. |
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Israeli nationals are not required to apply for a visa if coming to the UK as tourists or visitors. Palestinians will be required to apply for visas for all applications to enter the UK. |
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The latest quarterly Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas are published in ‘Immigration Statistics, April - June 2016’, available from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics