Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of visitor visa applications from (a) Iran, (b) Afghanistan, (c) Pakistan, (d) Bangladesh and (e) South Africa have been rejected since 2015.

The Home Office publishes data on visitor visas in the. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

Data on refusals of visit visas by nationality are published in table Vis_D02 of the https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/managed-migration-datasets#entry-clearance-visas-granted-outside-the-uk

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to year ending December 2019. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2019/list-of-tables#entry-clearance-visas

The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on entry clearance visas.

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