Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applications for a visitor visa made by Iranian relatives of British citizens were rejected by her Department in the last 12 months for which data is available.

The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on Visitor visa applications, grants, and refusals for Iranian nationals are published in tables Vis_D01 and Vis_D02, respectively, of the ‘Entry clearance visa application and outcomes detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending September 2022.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.