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	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	‘To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many family visit visa applications from non-EEA countries have been declined in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	178385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>The family visitor visa has been replaced by the standard visitor visa <a href="https://www.gov.uk/standard-visitor-visa" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/standard-visitor-visa</a></p><p>The information on total entry clearance visitor visas granted is released quarterly as part of the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, available at the .<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOV" target="_blank">GOV</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK" target="_blank">UK</a> website.</p><p>The most recent published visas statistics are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/10/2018 11:44:12 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

674330

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that the family visitor visa application process is clear and comprehensible to people using that process.
	tabling member constituency	Redcar
	tabling member printed	Anna Turley
	uin	60318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office website contains detailed guidance for customers on the process of applying for a visa.</p><p>Customer service is a key priority for UK Visas and Immigration, and the efficiency and effectiveness of the visa application process is kept under regular review, including by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. Feedback from customers and partners assists us in continuously improving the services we offer. For example, during 2016 we rolled out a new and more intuitive online visa application process, Access UK.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 25/04/2017 12:45:26 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

674344

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria are used to determine whether an applicant is likely to leave the UK by the end-date of a family visitor visa.
	tabling member constituency	Redcar
	tabling member printed	Anna Turley
	uin	60226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>Applications for a visa to travel to the UK to visit family are considered on their merits, in accordance with the requirements set out in Appendix V to the Immigration Rules, taking into account the information and supporting documents provided in the application.</p><p> </p><p>It is for the applicant to satisfy the decision maker that they meet those requirements, including that they are a genuine visitor. A genuine visitor is a person who will leave the UK at the end of the visit, will not live in the UK for extended periods or make the UK their main home, has sufficient funds for their support during the visit and who intends to undertake permitted visit activities and not prohibited activities. The assessment of the genuineness of a visitor relates to the particular factors of the individual application, but may include the applicant’s personal and economic ties to their country of residence.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/01/2017 13:57:54 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

874687

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many family reunion visa applications have been rejected in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	134988
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The available information relates to outcomes (grants, refusals, withdrawn, lapsed) in the Family: Other category, the large majority of whom are family reunion cases, and is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1, table vi_01_q, latest edition at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The “Family: Other” category consists of:</p><ul><li>Family reunion: pre-existing family members (partners, minor children) of a person with refugee leave or humanitarian protection, who has not yet obtained British citizenship;</li><li><em>From July 2012</em>: dependants who are not partners or children of those with refugee leave or humanitarian protection;</li><li><em>From July 2012</em>: parents with access rights to a child.</li></ul><p> </p><p>There are a small number of applications for family reunion where leave is granted in exceptional circumstances outside the Immigration Rules which are not included in the Family: Other category.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/04/2018 10:46:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

901383

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employees of universities have applied for visas for their (a) spouses and (b) families in each of the last five years; and how many of those applications have (a) been accepted, b) been rejected and (c) are still pending.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	142914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The specific data requested is not available. Information on the employer of those individuals sponsoring visa applicants is not collected by the Home Office as it is not required as part of visa application processes.</p><p>Published data on visa processing times, including the percentage of visas processed within published service standards, is published online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a> (then listed by publication date under ‘UK Visas &amp; Immigration’).</p><p>Should a customer wish to seek compensation they are advised to contact UKVI and they will be dealt with on a case by case basis in accordance with the complaints procedure:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about/complaints-procedure" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration/about/complaints-procedure</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 142915 142916 question first answered 14/05/2018 16:57:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

850879

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons her Department’s public guidance on applying for, extending or switching a family visa states that the earliest an application can be made is 28 days before current permission to stay in the UK expires; and for what reasons that guidance states that a decision will be made within 12 weeks if the application is from outside the UK and 8 weeks if the application is from within the UK.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	130099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>We advise on our website that if you wish to apply to extend your leave to remain on the basis of your family life, the earliest you can apply is 28 days before your current permission to stay in the UK under the family Immigration Rules expires.</p><p>If an applicant applies more than 28 days before their leave expires or they are within 28 days of completing the relevant period of time spent in the UK, they are likely to face a shortfall at the end of their qualifying period for settlement, necessitating an additional application with associated fees and charges.</p><p>The above requirement plays an essential part in the department’s workforce planning, allowing us to anticipate demand based upon previous grants of leave and to allocate resource appropriately.</p><p>These Rules provide for extant leave in the relevant category at the date of application to be added to the new grant of such leave, up to a maximum of 28 days, ensuring that no leave is lost.</p><p>UK Visas &amp; Immigration is currently reviewing application service standards. Current service standards reflect how long an application may take to assess due to a wide range of factors.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/03/2018 19:28:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

901252

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applicants seeking to join a family member in the UK had a DNA test to evidence their relationship to that family member in each year for which information is available; and how many of those DNA tests proved that the relationship between the visa applicant and their family member living in the UK was as they claimed it to be.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	142891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not available in Home Office published statistics. DNA tests are not required and if the applicant chooses to submit one it will be considered along with the other evidence submitted to support a visa application.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/06/2018 17:02:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard