§ Mr. GorrieTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in which countries the facilities for obtaining entry documents by people wishing to enter the UK are not available. [76622]
§ Mr. FatchettThere are no facilities to apply for UK entry clearance in the following countries: Andora, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macao, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Nauru, Netherland Antilles, North Korea, Niger, Palau, Paraguay, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Sikkim, Suriname Tajikistan, Togo, Tuvalu, Western Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines.
Posts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan are closed.
The following Posts offer a limited entry clearance service: Algiers, Almaty, Baku, Kigali, Riga, Skopje, St. Helena, Taipei, Tallinn, Tashkent, Tblisi, Tehran, Tirana, Tripoli, Vilnius and Yerevan.
Applicants for visit visas may apply at any UK diplomatic or consular Post offering a full visa service. Applicants for other categories of visas who have no UK entry clearance Post in their country of residence are required to apply to a designated Post, usually in a neighbouring country. My noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary will write to the hon. Member with full details of such Posts.