Refugees: Families

(asked on 19th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 16 June 2020 (HL4993), how many visas have been granted to extended family members of refugees outside the Immigration Rules.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 2nd February 2021

The Home Office are unable to state how many visas have been granted to extended family members of refugees outside the immigration rules as this information is not published.

However, the Home Office do publish data on the number of Family Reunion visa grants, by age and can be found in the published Immigration Statistics at, Fam_01.

An extract is contained in the table below;

Date of visa grant

Year ending Sept 2019

Year ending Sept 2020

Total grants

6,474

6,066

Under 18 (Age group for total family reunion grants)

3,236

3,197

18+ (Age group for total family reunion grants)

3,238

2,869

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