Marriage (Foreign Nationals)
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 16 October 2006
Vincent Cable (Shadow Chancellor, Treasury; Twickenham, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals have paid the fee to obtain permission to marry from the Home Secretary in each month since February 2005.
Liam Byrne (Minister of State (Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality), Home Office; Birmingham, Hodge Hill, Labour)
From February 2005 to September 2006, 27,014 foreign nationals paid the fee to obtain a certificate of approval of marriage from the Home Secretary.
Internal management information shows that numbers of applications received per month are as follows:
| Number of applications received | |
| February 2005 | 786 |
| March 2005 | 1,317 |
| April 2005 | 1,476 |
| May 2005 | 1,419 |
| June 2005 | 1,624 |
| July 2005 | 1,267 |
| August 2005 | 1,259 |
| September 2005 | 1,294 |
| October 2005 | 1,088 |
| November 2005 | 1,279 |
| December 2005 | 901 |
| January 2006 | 1,217 |
| February 2006 | 1,400 |
| March 2006 | 1,841 |
| April 2006 | 1,339 |
| May 2006 | 1,615 |
| June 2006 | 1,318 |
| July 2006 | 1,767 |
| August 2006 | 1,346 |
| September 2006 | 1,461 |
| Total | 27,014 |