HC Deb 25 March 2002 vol 382 cc599-605W
Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give a breakdown by nationality of(a) acceptances and (b) refusals for family visit visa applications in the last six months for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [44443]

Family visit applications
Applications issued
September 2001 October 2001 November 2001 December 2001 January 2002 February 2002
1 Abijan 21 16 11 26 10 19
2 Abu Dhabi 36 15 35 21 28 36
3 Abuja 20 15 15 18 0 0
4 Accra 473 246 238 691 851 210
5 Addis Ababa 10 6 15 5 13 —
6 Algiers 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Aimaly 25 12 31 22 0 7
8 Amman 62 69 46 9 67 56
9 Amsterdam 49 58 34 8 36 34
10 Ankara 9 5 26 8 26 17
11 Bahrain 38 19 18 29 34 25
12 Baku 11 15 24 41 19 19
13 Bangkok 45 34 32 20 38 77
14 Banjul 57 58 41 49 42 44
15 Beirut 108 64 63 90 33 59
16 Belgrade 118 167 254 446 209 229
17 Bogota 80 124 99 95 21 —
18 Bombay 557 528 433 380 489 665
19 Bratislava 92 112 153 116 74 134
20 Brussels 8 12 4 22 9 7
21 Bucharest 105 92 121 73 51 59
22 Budapest 1 7 2 0 6 8
23 Cairo 147 109 124 142 135 96
24 Calcutta 163 109 85 74 109 143
25 Canberra 7 14 16 15 20 12
26 Casablanca 83 77 84 99 126 126
27 Chicago 142 186 234 259 100 177
28 Colombo 82 61 48 65 66 63
29 Copenhagen 44 59 62 82 39 62
30 Dakar 0 3 2 2 1 0
31 Damascus 32 21 21 34 41 31
32 Dar Es Salaam 114 16 59 30 27 126
33 Dhaka 251 222 233 123 212 175
34 Doha 24 22 28 24 21 30
35 Dubai 91 55 56 31 24 27
36 Dublin 18 27 54 33 26 31
37 Dusseldorf 189 303 322 496 207 230
38 Ekaterinburg 10 11 23 17 11 19
39 Freetown1 — — — — 36 40
40 Geneva 105 49 49 78 73 —
41 Georgetown 47 35 36 43 73 —
42 Guangzhou 105 68 134 128 94 108
43 Hanoi 20 7 13 6 — —
44 Harare 7 4 2 4 5 —
45 Havana 4 5 4 5 1 11
46 Hong Kong 34 28 45 40 38 —
47 Islamabad 999 399 604 774 1,037 1,176
48 Istanbul 223 233 205 205 210 247
49 Jakarta 47 52 69 63 39 25
50 Jedda 18 19 12 8 21 33
51 Jerusalem 25 14 42 36 32 20
52 Kampala 249 73 72 101 59 —
53 Karachi 292 169 188 127 — —
54 Kathmandu 16 57 26 56 13 24

Mr. Bradshaw

I have been asked to reply.

We do not collect statistics on the nationalities of applicants.

Statistical information on the number of family visit applications issued and refused on a monthly basis is only available, from those posts which provide monthly statistical information (110 largest posts in 2001 and 111 in 2002). These figures are in the tables.

The remaining posts submit information on an annual basis; this is not broken down into months. The annual return will be issued later this month, with replies from missions expected at the end of April 2002.

Family visit applications
Applications issued
September 2001 October 2001 November 2001 December 2001 January 2002 February 2002
55 Khartoum 27 25 7 24 20 14
56 Kiev 107 93 145 121 73 93
57 Kingston 66 75 76 67 61 62
58 Kuala Lumpur 11 7 3 7 7 6
59 Kuwait 7 5 12 11 8 12
60 Lagos 2,727 723 1,267 165 138 691
61 Lahore 139 223 299 214 317 —
62 Lima 26 23 40 32 23 39
63 Los Angeles 126 125 206 97 174 149
64 Luanda 3 8 6 2 0 —
65 Lusaka 64 51 70 83 33 58
66 Madras 180 206 181 199 275 359
67 Madrid 51 30 48 54 45 —
68 Manila 26 42 26 5 27 —
69 Mexico City 0 0 0 0 0 0
70 Minsk 26 25 25 29 16 20
71 Moscow 227 405 321 292 229 258
72 Muscat 85 70 62 113 96 78
73 Nairobi 388 252 279 234 301 183
74 New Delhi 1,027 416 309 353 601 665
75 New York 361 464 632 766 548 —
76 Nicosia 220 178 192 241 240 195
77 Oslo 40 58 74 73 44 —
78 Ottawa 211 247 287 187 137 136
79 Paris 345 358 75 288 135 173
80 Peking 136 182 343 276 341 341
81 Port Louis 113 101 142 144 79 173
82 Port of Spain 3 8 3 4 5 —
83 Prague 0 0 0 0 0 0
84 Pretoria 1 3 7 3 8 9
85 Quito 18 14 6 12 20 22
86 Riga 3 6 16 14 7 —
87 Riyadh 18 6 10 0 0 —
88 Rome 72 102 143 252 114 72
89 Sana'a 4 5 1 5 8 —
90 Santo Domingo 1 1 1 1 67 51
91 Sarajevo 105 68 75 64 79 86
92 Shanghai 54 48 73 84 14 12
93 Singapore 10 17 32 16 49 83
94 Skopje 38 52 96 102 91 110
95 Sofia 87 124 211 162 69 63
96 St. Petersburg 54 0 93 94 0 —
97 Stockholm 91 116 106 89 81 114
98 Taipei 0 0 0 0 0 0
99 Tashkent 22 4 7 11 6 6
100 Tbilisi 0 0 0 1 0 —
101 Tehran 381 344 381 378 0 0
102 Tirana 33 39 70 41 21 28
103 Tokyo 6 9 10 15 3 12
104 Tripoli 163 119 28 34 67 —
105 Tunis 98 63 60 77 76 64
106 Vienna 43 54 58 80 26 26
107 Warsaw 0 0 3 2 1 —
108 Washington 0 0 0 0 0 0
109 Wellington 0 0 0 0 0 —
110 Yaounde 22 24 44 21 13 13
111 Zagreb 54 113 168 195 81 104
Total 13,633 9,912 11,476 11,203 9,826 9,317
Applications refused
September 2001 October 2001 November 2001 December 2001 January 2002 February 2002
1 Abijan 2 1 0 0 1 1
2 Abu Dhabi 13 6 1 3 8 4
3 Abuja 66 62 56 57 0 0
4 Accra 960 1,039 1,634 926 769 726
5 Addis Ababa 5 5 8 3 17 —
6 Algiers 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Aimaly 0 1 2 0 0 0
Applications refused
September 2001 October 2001 November 2001 December 2001 January 2002 February 2002
8 Amman 2 4 1 1 3 3
9 Amsterdam 1 3 2 3 2 0
10 Ankara 0 0 1 1 2 6
11 Bahrain 2 1 2 1 1 0
12 Baku 0 1 4 1 0 4
13 Bangkok 40 40 27 9 21 27
14 Banjul 9 24 12 7 3 10
15 Beirut 2 2 1 2 1 0
16 Belgrade 4 5 3 0 1 4
17 Bogota 11 21 19 4 12 —
18 Bombay 235 161 156 103 152 158
19 Bratislava 3 4 3 2 2 2
20 Brussels 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Bucharest 5 0 18 7 10 15
22 Budapest 0 0 1 0 2 1
23 Cairo 19 6 10 1 15 22
24 Calcutta 3 7 2 0 1 0
25 Canberra 1 0 0 0 1 0
26 Casablanca 20 5 3 4 6 4
27 Chicago 1 0 1 2 1 0
28 Colombo 67 69 67 51 29 28
29 Copenhagen 12 5 3 0 4 3
30 Dakar 1 1 3 3 0 4
31 Damascus 3 4 6 2 1 7
32 Dar Es Salaam 10 10 0 0 0 27
33 Dhaka 278 327 383 248 227 123
34 Doha 4 5 6 6 1 2
35 Dubai 31 51 38 19 28 18
36 Dublin 0 0 10 1 3 8
37 Dusseldorf 1 10 4 6 9 15
38 Ekaterinburg 1 1 1 2 1 0
39 Freetown1 — — — — 37 32
40 Geneva 4 8 5 5 4 —
41 Georgetown 10 5 14 18 4 —
42 Guangzhou 25 15 13 12 23 21
43 Hanoi 2 5 3 3 — —
44 Harare 1 1 0 0 4 —
45 Havana 1 0 0 1 1 0
46 Hong Kong 2 4 5 4 5 —
47 Islamabad 902 40 253 95 382 832
48 Istanbul 44 38 50 52 99 111
49 Jakarta 2 4 2 1 10 8
50 Jedda 1 24 5 2 1 7
51 Jerusalem 2 0 4 0 0 0
52 Kampala 28 9 28 20 28 —
53 Karachi 39 0 0 1 — —
54 Kathmandu 7 8 24 17 22 26
55 Khartoum 14 15 6 9 13 9
56 Kiev 19 12 12 7 4 10
57 Kingston 16 8 18 21 16 12
58 Kuala Lumpur 1 1 2 1 1 3
59 Kuwait 15 5 5 8 6 6
60 Lagos 273 291 324 155 182 311
61 Lahore 89 98 109 49 90 —
62 Lima 1 0 1 6 3 1
63 Los Angeles 2 5 2 2 2 1
64 Luanda 2 3 0 1 1 —
65 Lusaka 10 28 25 39 27 3
66 Madras 25 30 14 26 22 17
67 Madrid 0 1 0 0 0 —
68 Manila 42 70 81 49 52 —
69 Mexico City 0 0 0 0 0 0
70 Minsk 0 0 2 0 2 0
71 Moscow 11 11 4 6 8 2
72 Muscat 5 6 1 3 0 5
73 Nairobi 35 41 57 53 38 21
74 New Delhi 522 460 382 394 372 396
75 New York 1 3 3 4 11 —
76 Nicosia 2 14 6 4 2 0
77 Oslo 0 0 1 0 3 —
78 Ottawa 1 3 5 0 5 4
79 Paris 2 2 0 0 0 2
Applications refused
September 2001 October 2001 November 2001 December 2001 January 2002 February 2002
80 Peking 19 14 17 16 23 29
81 Port Louis 24 27 10 11 9 8
82 Port of Spain 1 0 1 0 0 —
83 Prague 0 0 0 0 0 0
84 Pretoria 2 9 5 10 7 0
85 Quito 1 2 4 1 5 1
86 Riga 0 0 0 1 0 —
87 Riyadh 9 4 9 0 0 —
88 Rome 4 1 1 0 1 1
89 Sana'a 4 1 13 6 14 —
90 Santo Domingo 0 0 1 0 0 3
91 Sarajevo 3 3 3 0 6 6
92 Shanghai 7 2 6 2 0 0
93 Singapore 0 0 0 0 28 19
94 Skopje 5 4 8 2 28 11
95 Sofia 15 22 17 10 6 4
96 St. Petersburg 0 0 7 8 0 —
97 Stockholm 0 6 0 2 3 0
98 Taipei 0 0 0 0 0 0
99 Tashkent 0 0 0 1 0 0
100 Tbilisi 0 0 0 3 0 —
101 Tehran 56 42 29 43 0 0
102 Tirana 1 8 3 2 0 1
103 Tokyo 1 0 2 5 1 2
104 Tripoli 38 13 16 15 30 —
105 Tunis 50 31 22 13 24 27
106 Vienna 1 0 0 2 26 26
107 Warsaw 0 1 1 3 3 —
108 Washington 0 0 0 0 0 0
109 Wellington 0 0 0 0 0 —
110 Yaounde 4 2 1 1 4 4
111 Zagreb 10 3 6 6 5 5
Total 4,225 3,344 4,136 2,706 3,037 3,209
1 From January 2002

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