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Lord Green of Deddington – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-01-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many asylum applications have been made in each of the last five years by applicants who entered the UK on a student visa; what were the nationalities of each applicant; how many of those applications were refused, and how many unsuccessful applicants were subsequently removed.

Lord Bates

Over the last five years there have been 15,470 cases of individuals who have entered on a student visa and subsequently also went on to claim asylum. Details by year and nationality are below.

Unfortunately the way corresponding data is held on asylum outcome means that to obtain the numbers of cases that were granted, refused and removed could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.

Visa Nationality

Asylum Year

Grand Total

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Afghanistan

10

26

63

73

69

241

Albania

2

6

3

5

16

Algeria

7

4

2

4

17

Angola

2

2

Armenia

1

1

2

Azerbaijan

4

1

1

6

Bahrain

6

5

1

12

Bangladesh

12

31

167

318

264

792

Belarus

1

1

2

Benin

1

1

Bolivia

1

1

Botswana

1

2

1

2

6

Bulgaria

1

1

Burkina Faso

1

1

Burma (Myanmar)

166

98

42

14

13

333

Burundi

2

1

3

Cameroon

4

3

9

33

52

101

Central African Republic

1

1

China

16

25

95

162

160

458

Colombia

2

3

3

2

1

11

Congo

3

2

1

6

Democratic Republic of Congo

5

7

5

17

Egypt

1

8

12

15

15

51

Equatorial Guinea

1

1

Eritrea

6

2

3

2

3

16

Ethiopia

9

5

6

11

8

39

Gambia

11

9

38

39

32

129

Georgia

2

5

7

Ghana

3

3

2

8

Guinea

3

1

2

5

6

17

HONG KONG

1

1

India

10

26

244

320

294

894

Iran

106

244

464

307

148

1269

Iraq

6

3

15

17

54

95

Israel

1

1

2

Ivory Coast

1

2

5

1

2

11

Jamaica

1

2

2

5

Japan

1

1

2

Jordan

2

4

4

5

3

18

Kenya

6

5

10

12

12

45

Kuwait

1

1

2

Kyrgyzstan

5

3

3

2

13

Lebanon

1

2

6

5

14

Liberia

1

1

2

Libya

7

114

73

57

86

337

Malawi

2

4

10

15

9

40

Malaysia

1

2

3

6

Maldives

1

1

Mali

1

2

1

1

1

6

Mauritius

1

2

3

4

10

MEXICO

2

2

Mongolia

1

2

3

2

8

Morocco

3

6

6

3

18

Nepal

4

3

33

37

25

102

Nigeria

6

12

94

142

136

390

Oman

1

2

3

Pakistan

52

385

1313

1471

1265

4486

Palestinian Authority

18

24

30

25

30

127

Philippines

1

8

12

11

32

Russian Federation

2

1

4

3

10

Rwanda

9

7

3

5

5

29

Saudi Arabia

4

3

6

13

Senegal

4

7

4

3

18

Sierra Leone

1

4

9

2

16

SINGAPORE

1

1

Somalia

1

1

3

5

South Africa

1

1

2

4

SOUTH KOREA

1

2

3

SOUTH SUDAN

1

1

Sri Lanka

230

744

1137

1171

715

3997

St Lucia

1

1

St Vincent & the Grenadines

1

1

Sudan

6

11

23

11

9

60

Syria

8

24

256

251

134

673

Tanzania

10

8

15

17

11

61

Thailand

1

1

Tunisia

2

1

3

Turkey

6

8

10

5

3

32

Turkmenistan

1

1

1

3

3

9

Uganda

7

11

42

33

41

134

Ukraine

9

9

Uzbekistan

1

4

5

Venezuela

3

3

Vietnam

1

1

5

9

17

33

Yemen

2

5

3

5

15

Yugoslavia

1

1

Zambia

1

4

3

4

12

Zimbabwe

14

11

26

15

15

81

Grand Total

781

1901

4350

4695

3743

15470

Note: The figures quoted have been derived from internal management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.

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