Visas: Students
(asked on 1st February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for the extension of a tier 4 student visa were declined in each of the last two years.
The requested information is given in the table below:
Decisions on applications for an extension of stay : Tier 4 & pre-PBS equivalent (main applicants)
Year Grants Refusals
2013 104,668 11,544
2014 68,231 11,486
Source: Immigration Statistics July - September 2015, Home Office, table ex_01
Corresponding data for 2015 will be published on 25 February 2016.
Information on refusals of extensions of stay for Tier 4 students is published in Extensions table ex_01 in the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics release.
The latest edition, is published in Extensions table ex_01 in the Home Office's Immigration Statistics: July to September 2015 is available from the Library of the House and on the GOV.UK statistics web pages at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release