Migrant Workers: Ministers of Religion
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have a (a) Religious Worker and (b) Minister of Religion visa.
Answered by Mike Tapp
The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas by visa route, including Religious Worker, and applicant type 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.
Please note that Religious Worker dependants are grouped into the 'Dependant - Temporary Worker' category.
Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data is from January 2005 up to the end of June 2025.
To calculate a refusal rate, we recommend that you take the number of refusals and divide by the total number of outcomes in a given period.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.
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