Visas: Families
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 18440 on Visas: Families, whether her Department collects data on the immigration status of sponsors for family visa applications.
Answered by Seema Malhotra
There are a number of different family application routes including partner, parent, child and adult dependent relative and the immigration status requirements vary depending on the route. We routinely check the immigration status of those who sponsor family applications for permission to enter or stay in the UK when deciding an application, but there is no centrally maintained record of that data.
A range of processing and decision data, which includes data on family visa applications, can be found at: Immigration system statistics data tables – https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables and Migration transparency data: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data.
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