Freedom of Information
Central Correspondence Team
Customer Operations Support
Services
PO Box 3468
Sheffield
S3 8WA
James Walker
request-1141409-
Email:
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
www.gov.uk/ukvi
FOI Reference: FOI2024/05464
11 July 2024
Dear Mr Walker,
Thank you for your email of 22 June 2024 in which you request information regarding
the recipients of the UK Ancestry Visa. Your request has been handled as a request
for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000.
Information Requested
I would like to find out about the recipients of the UK Ancestry Visa. Could you please
provide the following information:
- the number of Ancestry Visas issued, broken down by quarter for the past 5 years.
- the citizenship of the individuals receiving these visas.
Please provide and break down this information for both the main visa applicant, and
any dependents they have who were also issued visas.
Response
The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas, including UK Ancestry
visas, by nationality and quarter in the
‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly
Release’. Data on grants of visa applications are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the
detailed entry clearance visas dataset. Information on how to use the dataset can be
found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the end of
March 2024.
Section 21(1) of the FOIA exempts the Home Office from having to provide you with
this information, because it is already reasonably accessible to you. If you have any
UK Visas and Immigration is an operational command of the Home Office
difficulties in accessing this information at the source which I have indicated, please
contact me again.
If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal
review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months
to: xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx, quoting reference
FOI2024/05464. If you ask for
an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with
the response.
As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request
will be reassessed by staff not involved in providing you with this response. If you
remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right of complaint to
the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of
Information Act.
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:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/information-rights-privacy-notice
Yours sincerely
R Dunn
Customer Operations Support Services
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