Entry Clearances: Overseas Students

(asked on 4th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Tier 4 visa applications have (a) been made and (b) been successful in (i) January 2019, (ii) January 2020, (iii) February 2019, (iv) February 2020, (v) March 2019, (vi) March 2020, (vii) April 2019 and (viii) April 2020.


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Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 19th May 2020

The most recently published transparency data in February 2020 includes data up to the end of December 2019, so we are unable to provide any published data for 2020.

For the 2019 statistics requested, please see the table below.

Study Applications

Q1 2019

4,674

In-Country

Q1 2019

14,692

Entry Clearance

Q1 2019

19,366

Total Study Intake

This data is taken from the In-Country Migration Data and International Operations Transparency Data published in August 2019.

The published data does not include grant rates, for this specific cohort of applications, however the table below does show the number of cases granted in this period.

Study Approvals

Q1 2019

5,438

In Country

Q1 2019

16,099

Entry Clearance

Q1 2019

19,366

Total Study Intake

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