Visas: Dependants
(asked on 20th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who left the UK as a result of failing to obtain an Adult Dependent Relative visa for a relative in (a) 2008, (b) 2009, (c) 2010, (d) 2011, (e) 2012, (f) 2013 and (g) 2014.
The requested information is not available. Applications from adult dependent relatives of a British Citizen or a settled person in the UK are included in the category ‘Family: Other (for immediate settlement)’ in the published entry clearance visa tables but cannot be identified separately. The latest published figures for the ‘Family: Other (for immediate settlement)’ category are given in the table below.
Entry clearance visa applications and resolution: Family: Other (for immediate settlement) | |||||||
Year | Applications | Resolved | Granted | % | Refused | % | Withdrawn or lapsed |
2008 | 3,288 | 3,336 | 1,307 | 39% | 1,987 | 60% | 42 |
2009 | 2,619 | 2,596 | 1,148 | 44% | 1,412 | 54% | 36 |
2010 | 2,205 | 2,509 | 1,258 | 50% | 1,224 | 49% | 27 |
2011 | 1,837 | 1,857 | 1,109 | 60% | 728 | 39% | 20 |
2012 | 1,725 | 1,915 | 845 | 44% | 1,045 | 55% | 25 |
2013 | 1,218 | 1,563 | 488 | 31% | 1,061 | 68% | 14 |
2014 | 1,001 | 1,277 | 377 | 30% | 881 | 69% | 19 |
The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics on entry clearance visa applications and resolutions by category in table vi_01_q (Entry clearance visas tables volume 1) within the Immigration Statistics release. The published statistics do not distinguish between applications made and decided under the family Immigration Rules in force before and from 9 July 2012. Grants and other case resolutions do not necessarily correspond to an application made in the same period.
A copy of the latest release, “Immigration Statistics April to June 2015”, is available from the Library of the House and from https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release
Information on passenger arrivals does not separately identify adult dependent relatives. Information on emigration from the UK is the responsibility of the Office for National Statistics.