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<p>There are several routes for children to be reunited safely with their families
in the UK. Applications for family reunion for individuals under the age of 18 years
of age can be received both in country and out of country and are processed by a number
of casework units within the Home Office including International Operations, Settlement,
Complex Casework and Asylum Operations. Unfortunately the way these applications are
processed and the method used to store the data on the main immigration database means
that not all of the data is recorded in a format that can be reported on automatically
and would therefore require a manual investigation of thousands of case records. As
a result this data could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Since 2010
we have granted more than 21,000 family reunion visas and 175 visas for exceptional
circumstances though we are not able to distinguish from the data how many of these
applicants were under the age of 18. Internal Management information concerning applications
from people under 18 processed by International Operations and Complex Casework are
listed in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Complex
Casework</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand
Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>77</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>International
Operations</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2950</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2406</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2624</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2882</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>3088</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand
Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>13950</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This
is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured
to the standard of Official Statistics.</p>
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