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identifier	HL1360
answering body	Home Office

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757375

registered interest

date

05/09/2017

answering body

Home Office

answering dept id

answering dept short name

Home Office

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Home Office

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Visas

house id

legislature

25277

pref label	House of Lords

question text

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether biometric and fingerprint data taken from a visa applicant's application to enter the UK are deleted from any database if that applicant is subsequently refused entry; and if not, for what specific purpose the data are retained.

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Viscount Waverley

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HL1360

answer

is ministerial correction

date of answer

18/09/2017

answer text

<p>Fingerprints taken from visa applicants are normally retained for up to ten years regardless of whether the application was successful, as set out in regulations made under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.</p><p>This enables the Secretary of State to identify easily those who make further applications for visas to come to the UK, preventing immigration abuse and those who are a risk of high harm from entering the country.</p>

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

question first answered

18/09/2017 13:54:09

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4311

label	Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford

tabling member

1744

label	Biography information for Viscount Waverley