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registered interest
date	29/03/2019
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 settlement visas which were initially turned down due to the financial threshold criteria were subsequently turned down on reapplication for a different reason.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	238642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>All UK visa applications are considered on their individual merits and in line with UK immigration rules and guidance.</p><p>The latest data on refused family visas can be found in Table vi_01_q (visas tables volume 1) in the Immigration Statistics, year ending December 2018 release with the data tables available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-december-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a></p><p>However, information on the reasons for refusals are not published.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/04/2019 10:39:11 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

985670

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The family visitor visa has been replaced by the standard visitor visa 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

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

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

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

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