Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of spouse/partnership visa applications in each of the last three years have been for same sex partners (a) in total and (b) in relation to (i) Uganda, (ii) USA, (iii) China, (iv) Brazil, (v) Pakistan and (vi) Australia.

The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visa applications in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

Data on the number of spouse/partnership visa applications are published in table Vis_D01 of the Entry clearance visa detailed datasets https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/managed-migration-datasetswhich include nationality breakdowns. The data does not show whether the application was from a same sex partner as these do not have a separate visa endorsement.

Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relate up to September 2020. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’. https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=home-office&order=relevance

The data from the table mentioned above are outlined below.

Entry clearance visa applications as a partner or spouse

Table notes:

‘Family: Partner’ includes partners, spouses, Fiancé(e)s and proposed civil partners