To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 16 June 2020 (HL4993), how many visas have been granted to extended family members of refugees outside the Immigration Rules.
Answered on
2 February 2021
The Home Office are unable to state how many visas have been granted to extended family members of refugees outside the immigration rules as this information is not published.
However, the Home Office do publish data on the number of Family Reunion visa grants, by age and can be found in the published Immigration Statistics at, Fam_01.
An extract is contained in the table below;
Date of visa grant | Year ending Sept 2019 | Year ending Sept 2020 |
Total grants | 6,474 | 6,066 |
Under 18 (Age group for total family reunion grants) | 3,236 | 3,197 |
18+ (Age group for total family reunion grants) | 3,238 | 2,869 |