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Entry Clearances: Appeals

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many family visitor visa appeals were (a) received and (b) upheld in each of the last six years. (264759)

The number of family visitor visa appeals that were received and granted by an adjudicator/immigration judge in each of the last six years is shown in the following table:

Appeal receipts

Appeals allowed

2003-04

16,884

17,275

2004-05

30,643

112,384

2005-06

58,495

12,793

2006-07

50,065

24,638

2007-082

64,669

21,755

April to December 20082

50,009

16,143

1 Outcomes data were not published prior to April 2005. The allowed figures for 2003-04 and 2004-05 are estimates based on the distribution of outcomes from an alternative data source. 2 Data are provisional and subject to final reconciliation.