Question follow-through · 115954

Visas: Russia

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were issued to Russian citizens in each of the last three years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
25 Feb 2026
Target answer date
2 Mar 2026
Answer
4 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were issued to Russian citizens in each of the last three years.

  2. 2 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas by nationality in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the outcomes of visa applications are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset. Info...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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