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<p>Applications for visit visas are considered against Appendix V of the Immigration
Rules and on a case by case basis. Detailed information on how UK Visas and Immigration
makes decisions on visitor cases is published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visit-guidance"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visit-guidance</a>.</p><p>Information
on total entry clearance visas (the majority of which are visitor visas) broken down
by nationality and outcome (grants, refusals, withdrawals, lapsed) is published in
the quarterly Immigration Statistics Visas volume 1 table vi_02_q at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019-data-tables"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2019-data-tables</a>.</p><p>Please
note that the large majority of US nationals coming to the UK as visitors do not require
an entry clearance visa, as shown in the Immigration Rules at (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-v-visitor-rules"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-v-visitor-rules</a>).</p>
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