Dear Bradley Roberts,

Thank you for your request dated 20/10/2009. This falls to be dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I have listed your question below for reference.

The number of overseas students formerly studying at Grimsby Institute of Further Education under student visas who have not left the UK on expiration of their visas and for whom there is now no trace.

I have interpreted `former student' to mean a person who has failed to regularise their stay and has failed to leave the UK.

The UK Border Agency does not hold the information you have requested.

However, whilst information is not currently held on embarkation of foreign nationals, our electronic borders (e-Borders) programme will capture information on individuals before they travel to the UK. By the end of December 2009, we will capture 60% of passenger movements in and out of the UK, rising to 95% by the end of 2010.

Further information on the e-borders programme can be found on the UK Border Agency website.

If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request.  Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of UKBA sending a substantive reply to your original request and should be addressed  to:

UK Border Agency
Central Freedom of Information Team
11th Floor
Lunar House, Short Corridor
40 Wellesley Road
Croydon
CR9 2BY

During the independent review the department's handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you will have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Feakins,

Freedom of Information Team,

Resource Management Group