Question follow-through · 42400

Visas: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in the UK on student visas later claimed asylum in each of the last five years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
2 Apr 2025
Answer
4 Apr 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 31 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in the UK on student visas later claimed asylum in each of the last five years.

  2. 2 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Data on the ‘Source of asylum claims in 2024’ was published by the Home Office on 30th March 2025. The remaining requested data is not available from published statistics and could only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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