Lord Ahmed – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Ahmed on 2015-12-10.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many overseas wives have joined their families in the UK between January 2014 and December 2015.

Lord Bates

From January 2014 to September 2015 there were 35,990* spousal visas issued to females. We are not able to provide figures from October to December 2015 as visa figures for this period have not yet been published.

*Figure rounded to the nearest 5.