Freedom of Information
Central Correspondence Team
Customer Operations Support
Services
PO Box 3468
Sheffield
S3 8WA
Hajar Mikaeili
Email:
request-1117352-
xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
www.gov.uk/ukvi
FOI Reference: FOI2024/03714
13 May 2024
Dear Hajar Mikaeili,
Thank you for your enquiry of 16 April 2024. Your request has been handled as a
request for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000.
Information Requested
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request information
regarding visa application statistics for the year 2023, for the following visa categories:
student, tourist, skilled worker, and Health and Care Worker visas.
I kindly request the following data for the year 2023:
1) The total number of visa applications submitted for student, tourist, skilled
worker, and Health and Care Worker visas, respectively.
2) The number of visa applications submitted for each category broken down by
the nationality of the applicant.
3) The number of visa applications that were rejected or denied for each category,
specifying the nationality of the applicant.
Response
I confirm that the Home Office holds the information which you have requested.
However, we believe that the information is already reasonably accessible to you.
UK Visas and Immigration is an operational command of the Home Office
The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas by nationality and visa
type in the
‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on visa
applications are published in table ‘Vis_D01’ whilst data on refusals of visa
applications are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the
detailed entry clearance visas
dataset. Nationality, visa routes, and year of application and outcome can be
selected. Further Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’
page of the workbook. The latest data relates up to the end of December 2023.
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
FOI2024/03714. 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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