[holding answer 17 March 2008]: The Border and Immigration Agency will make a decision in line with usual procedures, this is expected to be in the next four weeks.
[holding answer 20 March 2008]: The requested information is contained in the following table.
Copies of asylum statistics publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html
Country of nationality Total Africa Other Benin 5 Botswana * Burkina Faso 5 Central African Republic * Chad 10 Gabon 5 Guinea 15 Guinea-Bissau 10 Malawi 10 Mali 5 Mauritania * Mauritius 15 Mozambique * Niger 5 Senegal * Seychelles 10 South Africa 40 Togo 40 Western Sahara * Zambia 25 Total Africa Other 200 Asia Other Bhutan * Cambodia * Fiji * Indonesia 10 Malaysia 5 Mongolia 30 Myanmar (Burma) 10 Nauru * Nepal 50 North Korea * Philippines 15 Singapore * South Korea 5 Taiwan * Thailand 5 Total Asia Other 130 Middle East Bahrain * Egypt 20 Israel 40 Jordan 10 Kuwait 10 Lebanon 100 Morocco 15 Oman * Palestine 155 Saudi Arabia 5 Tunisia 10 United Arab Emirates * Yemen 65 Total Middle East Other 440 1 Provisional figures rounded to the nearest 5 (* = 1 or 2 ). 2 Main asylum applicants (this is how the Family ILR exercise records those more often referred to as "principal asylum applicants"). 3 This information is based on internal management information. 4 Nationality recorded as at 7 December 2007 is not necessarily the applicant's nationality at the time of grant of ILR.