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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Visas: Overseas Students (24 October 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of student visas that have been obtained fraudulently in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Wes Streeting (Labour)

Answer

The Home Office does not hold the specific information in the format requested. To obtain it would involve interrogating individual case records, at disproportionate cost.

All out of country entry clearance applications are subject to an extensive range of mandatory and discretionary checks. These include, but are not limited to, identity, travel document verification, searches against national and international police records, and against previous immigration history.

All applicants applying for student visas are required to meet the Immigration Rules. In the event that any fraudulent activity has been used to apply for a visa, the applicant may be refused under the Immigration Rules.


Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
31 October 2016

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