Freedom of Information
Central Correspondence Team
Central Operations
PO Box 3468
Sheffield
S3 8WA
Chris James
Email:
Email
: request-682924-
FOIxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
www.gov.uk/ukvi
FOI Reference: 59840
2 September 2020
Dear Mr James
Thank you for your enquiry of 9 August, in which you requested information
regarding the Commonwealth Two Year Working Holiday Scheme, and the Youth
Mobility Scheme. Your enquiries have been handled as a request for information
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Information Requested
I would like to know the annual numbers of applicants and percentage of visa
applications which have been successful under the Commonwealth Two Year
Working Holiday Scheme and the same it's successor the Youth Mobility Scheme for
the 5 year period before and the 5 year period after the change from one scheme to
the other - i.e. 2003 to 2013 inclusive. This should be broken down by country.
Response
The response to your enquiries is attached as Annex 1 – 2003 until 2005.
These figures have been taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers
may change as information on that system is updated.
The data from 2005 onwards are already published, we provided a contribution for
this below;
UK Visas and Immigration is an operational command of the Home Office
The Home Office publishes data on Tier 5 Youth Mobility visas and ‘Working
holidaymakers’ visas in the
‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on
applications for ‘Youth Mobility’ and ‘Working Holidaymakers’ visas, by nationality,
are published in table Vis_D01 of the
‘Entry clearance visa applications and
outcomes’ detailed datasets. Data on grants of these visas, by nationality, are
published in table Vis_D02 of the same file. Information on how to use the datasets
can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. Data from 2005 to March 2020 are
included.
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
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
59840. 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
would be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this
response. If you were to remain dissatisfied after an internal review, you would have
a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of
the FOI Act.
Yours sincerely
C. Walls
Central Operations Team
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