Question follow-through · 13400
Visas: Offenders
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals have been refused visas because of criminal convictions in their home countries in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals have been refused visas because of criminal convictions in their home countries in each of the last five years.
13 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on visas refused are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset. However, this information is not broken...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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