Question follow-through · 52403
Visas: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Short-Term Student (English Language) Route Visa applications refusals were due to belief that the applicant was applying to use the route without the intention to study.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 22 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Short-Term Student (English Language) Route Visa applications refusals were due to belief that the applicant was applying to use the route without the intention to study.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2025
Answer published
Published data on short term student visas can be found here, Immigration system statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK including refusal volumes.Visa applications can be refused for a variety of reasons, and we do not publish data detailing these. Short t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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