Overseas Students: Deportation

(asked on 9th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many students who hold a cancelled English language test certificate have (a) had leave to remain curtailed or extension of leave to remain refused and (b) been removed from the UK in each year since May 2010.


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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 17th July 2015

Data on the operational response to the abuse of Secure English Language Testing supplied by ETS is published quarterly in the Home Office Transparency data which can be accessed at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-may-2015 .

The most recent figures are published to the end of Quarter 1 2015 and include the number of individuals who have had leave curtailed or an application refused, those who have been removed from the United Kingdom and those who had at some time been detained. In addition to these figures a significant number of individuals will have chosen to leave the UK of their own volition without Home Office assistance.

The Home Office has not been notified of cancelled English language test certificates issued by other providers since 2010 on anything approaching the scale of ETS. Moreover it is in theory possible that an individual student may have had leave to remain curtailed or extension of leave to remain refused for reasons unrelated to their English language proficiency but might subsequently also have had a test certificate issued by a provider other than ETS cancelled. For these reasons, aside from ETS, the Home Office does not hold aggregated figures for students who have had leave curtailed or been refused leave to remain since May 2010 and who have had at any time an English language test certificate issued by a provider other than ETS withdrawn

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