Refusal statistics for Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa applications

The request was refused by Home Office.

Dear Sirs,

The Immigration Quarterly Statistics show that, in the three years to the end of 2016 (Q1 2014 - Q4 2016) 5,419 applications were made for Entry Clearance as a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur). Over this period of time, 2,723 were refused.

The same statistics show that, over the same period, 14,188 applications were made for extensions as a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur). Of these applications, 6,905 were refused.

I am seeking any available information you hold in relation to the reasons for the refusal of

i) the applications for Entry Clearance; and
ii) the extension applications

Obviously I am not expecting the Home Office to provide the reasons for each individual refusal. But I would expect the Home Office to record which Rules were not being met in any given immigration category, for example:

400 Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) applications failed to meet Immigration Rule X
500 Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) applications failed to meet Immigration Rule Y
250 Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) applications failed to meet Immigration Rule Z
etc

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

Nick

FOI Responses, Home Office

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Regards,

P. Zebedee
Knowledge and Information Management Unit
Performance and Risk Directorate
Home Office | 3rd Floor | Peel | 2 Marsham Street |  London SW1P 4DF
www.gov.uk/home-office

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Silas S. Brown left an annotation ()

This request was refused because Nick had not provided his full name. I guess Nick doesn't want to do that, so I did. My updated version of the request is here: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...

Silas S. Brown left an annotation ()

My eventual successful request is at https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...