Entry Clearances

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of appeals against refusal of a family visit visa from (a) India, (b) Nigeria, (c) Bangladesh and (d) Pakistan have been dismissed in the last six years. (273593)

The number of appeals against the refusal of applications for family visit visas at visa-issuing posts in India, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan that were (a) received and (b) dismissed in each of the last five calendar years is shown in the following tables. Reliable data is not held for years prior to 2004.

*200420052006*
	Appeal decisions	Dismissed	Dismissed (%)	Appeal decisions	Dismissed	Dismissed (%)	Appeal decisions	Dismissed	Dismissed (%)
Bangladesh	350	119	34	719	275	38	2,027	956	47
India	3,690	1,380	37	3,321	986	30	8,153	2,956	36
Nigeria	1,506	563	37	3,101	1,442	47	4,147	1,846	45
Pakistan	430	90	21	2,832	678	24	11,889	5,473	46

*20072008*
	Appeal decisions	Dismissed	Dismissed (%)	Appeal decisions	Dismissed	Dismissed (%)
Bangladesh	3,146	1,557	49	4,450	2,128	48
India	9,427	4,657	49	8,841	4,198	47
Nigeria	8,703	6,090	70	8,740	7,149	82
Pakistan	14,646	7,994	55	17,230	8,783	51

Information is unpublished and treated as provisional.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for residence permits by the spouses or partners of EU citizens have been awaiting a decision for more than six months. (284546)

Information relating to the number of applications for residence permits from the spouses and partners of EU nationals are in the same category as other family members and is not recorded separately and therefore is not readily available.

Volume 496: debated on Wednesday 15 July 2009