Visas: Human Rights

(asked on 20th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Home Office guidance entitled Fee waiver: Human Rights-based and other specified applications, how many visa waivers have been issued in each of the last five years in the categories (a) five year partner and five year parent route (ECHR Article 8 rights), (b) ten year partner, parent or private life route (ECHR Article 8 rights), (c) extension of leave to remain where applicant was refused asylum or humanitarian protection and granted discretionary leave and (d) extension of discretionary leave for victims of trafficking or slavery, by (i) because the family is destitute and (ii) because they would be rendered destitute by payment of the fee.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 25th March 2019

Data on the number of applications for extension of Leave to Remain in the categories requested is not published in quarterly immigration statistics. Data on the number of fee waiver applications is not captured in a form that can be reported and to provide the data requested would require individual scrutiny of all applications within the scope of the question. This would incur disproportionate cost.

The department do publish the number of grants and refusals of in country leave to remain applications by category as part of the quarterly immigration statistics.

This is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018/list-of-tables#extensions

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