To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in which countries the UK Border Agency has offices (a) co-located and (b) not co-located with the British Embassy, Consulate or High Commission. (307113)

All the UK Border Agency’s overseas offices are based in British diplomatic missions, except for the UK visa section, which is in the UKBA’s estate in Croydon. The agency’s commercial partners also run visa application centres for the agency in 110 locations. These are not co-located with the diplomatic missions.