Question follow-through · 119435
Asylum: Sudan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Sudanese nationals with student visas claimed asylum in the UK in the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs
- Asylum: Sudan · 13 Mar 2026
- Overseas Students: Sudan · 18 Mar 2026
- Overseas Students: Afghanistan and Sudan · 18 Mar 2026
- Visas: Afghanistan and Sudan · 18 Mar 2026
- Refugees: Resettlement · 18 Mar 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Sudanese nationals with student visas claimed asylum in the UK in the last five years.
12 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Home Office publishes breakdowns of the number of people claiming asylum after entering the UK with a visa or other leave, by nationality and latest leave held prior to claim, for the top five nationalities in Asy_01e. This table does not currently in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Asylum: Sudan
13 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2026 to Question 119435 on Asylum: Sudan, how many of those who claimed asylum were Chevening Scholars.
Asylum: Overseas Students
13 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department operates a policy of ending study visas for nationalities where asylum claims from students go beyond a certain percentage.
Visas: Asylum
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those in the UK on Skilled Worker and Study visa routes have gone on to claim asylum by nationality, per quarter for the last four quarters.
Visas
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the 18 month review of visa brakes will be conducted.
Visas
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the 18 month review of visa brakes includes considerations other than asylum-rates.
Visas
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the 18 month review of visa brakes includes engagement with Departments other than her own.
Overseas Students: Sudan
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment was made of the potential impact on atrocity prevention in the decision to introduce student visa breaks for nationals of Sudan.
Overseas Students: Afghanistan and Sudan
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment was made of the potential impact of the decision to introduce student visa breaks for nationals of Sudan and Afghanistan on access to higher education in those countries.
Visas: Afghanistan and Sudan
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a cost-benefit analysis was conducted of the visa brake being applied to Sudanese and Afghan students.
Refugees: Resettlement
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the new refugee study and work pathway schemes will be open to nationals from Sudan and Afghanistan.
Refugees: Sponsorship
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the new community sponsorship safe routes will be open to nationals from Sudan and Afghanistan.
Refugees
19 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the new refugee study and work pathway schemes will open.