The Bishop of Durham received the following written answer on 2nd February 2021:
The Lord Bishop of Durham asked Her Majesty’s Government how many applications for Adult Dependent Relative visas have been refused since 2016.
Baroness Williams of Trafford (Con, Home Office): The data required for this question cannot be produced through normal data cycles and would involve the need for a manual trawl which would incur cost.
The entry clearance data which is published and available can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/managed-migration-datasets
(Select Entry Clearance visas granted outside the UK)
The Lord Bishop of Durham asked Her Majesty’s Government, following the changes to the Immigration Rules in 2012, how many British citizens they estimate emigrated to take care of dependents due to a family member being refused an Adult Dependent Relative visa.
Lord True (Con, Cabinet Office): The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.
Dear Lord Durham,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking how many British citizens are estimated to have emigrated to take care of dependents due to a family member being refused an Adult Dependent Relative visa, following the changes to the Immigration Rules in 2012 (HL12280).
The Home Office would be best placed to provide information about Adult Dependent Relative visa refusals since 2012.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) does publish estimates of the numbers of British citizens emigrating from the UK[1]. Table 1 shows the numbers of British citizens the ONS estimates to have emigrated from 2012 onwards. 2019 is the latest year for which data is available.
The ONS publishes statistics on reasons for migration. However, data are not collected on the numbers of citizens who have emigrated to take care of dependents due to a family member being refused an Adult Dependent Relative (ADR) visa. Therefore, the ONS are unable to estimate how many citizens emigrate for that purpose nor how many are due to the refusal of an ADR visa.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
| Table 1, British citizens emigrating[2] | ||||||||
| British (Including Overseas Territories) | ||||||||
| Year | Estimate | +/-CI | ||||||
| 2012 | 143 | 14 | ||||||
| 2013 | 134 | 12 | ||||||
| 2014 | 137 | 13 | ||||||
| 2015 | 124 | 13 | ||||||
| 2016 | 134 | 13 | ||||||
| 2017 | 129 | 13 | ||||||
| 2018 | 125 | 15 | ||||||
| 2019 | 138 | 17 | ||||||
| Source: ONS | ||||||||
[2] Numbers in thousands
The Lord Bishop of Durham asked Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 16 June 2020 (HL4993), how many visas have been granted to extended family members of refugees outside the Immigration Rules.
Baroness Williams of Trafford: The Home Office are unable to state how many visas have been granted to extended family members of refugees outside the immigration rules as this information is not published.
However, the Home Office do publish data on the number of Family Reunion visa grants, by age and can be found in the published Immigration Statistics at, Fam_01.
An extract is contained in the table below;
| Date of visa grant | Year ending Sept 2019 | Year ending Sept 2020 |
| Total grants | 6,474 | 6,066 |
| Under 18 (Age group for total family reunion grants) | 3,236 | 3,197 |
| 18+ (Age group for total family reunion grants) | 3,238 | 2,869 |
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