Aggregate gender statistics for immigration applications
Dear Home Office,
I respectfully request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
In the following requests, I use the terms:
"application": An application for a visa, biometric residence card, biometric residence permit, immigration status document, Home Office travel document, indefinite leave to remain, citizenship, transfer of conditions, change of circumstances, passport, or the like.
I request a copy of statistics available to the Home Office, indicating the number applicants from Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 31, 2023, broken down by:
a. year of application
b. type of application (e.g. visa, BRC, BRP, ILR, NTL TOC, etc)
c. which gender/sex marker the applicant indicated in the original application (i.e. disregarding any change the applicant made in response to the Home Office)
For example, your response might be a CSV file starting with lines such as:
"year", "type", "marker indicated", "number of applicants"
2019, "visa", "female", 23456
2019, "visa", "male", 12345
2019, "visa", "unspecified", 42
… etc.
If you do not have data available to fulfil this part of the request exactly, please tell me the closest data of this kind that you do have available, and I will revise my request to suit.
Yours faithfully,
Mx Castellucci
PS: I have provided my title and surname. Per the ICO's current guidance, this complies with the name requirements of FOIA section 8(1)(b).
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Dear Home Office,
Thank you for the update.
If data for some, but not all of the types of applications, would fall under exemption please provide the non-exempt data.
I would also settle for the data being rounded to the nearest 100.
That said, the Office for National Statistics releases similar data already.
Yours faithfully,
Mx Castellucci
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Dear Mx Castellucci,
Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.
This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref FOI2024/02106). We will
aim to send you a full response by 26th March which is twenty working days
from the date we received your request.
A link to the Home Office Information Rights Privacy Notice can be found
in the following link. This explains how we process your personal
information:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...
Kind Regards,
Home Office
Dear MX Castellucci
Please find attached a letter in response to your recent FOI request.
Yours sincerely
CCT FOI
Customer Operations Support Services
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