PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
UK-Africa Investment Summit (20 January 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of representatives from African countries who had their application for a visa refused in advance of the UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020.

Asked by:
Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat)

All UK Visa applications are considered on their individual merits and in line with the UK Immigration Rules: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-v-visitor-rules, which set out the requirements to visit the UK. These requirements apply to all visitors to the UK and the onus is on the applicant to demonstrate that they satisfy the immigration rules.

Information on the number and proportion of grants and refusals of visitor visas is published in the Home Office’s quarterly Immigration Statistics, at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019.

Answered by:
Kevin Foster (Conservative)
23 January 2020