Home Department written question – answered at on 12 March 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many British Overseas Territory nationals were refused entry to the UK in each of the last five years.
British overseas territories citizenship does not attract the right to enter and live in the UK. However, as many British overseas territories citizens are also British citizens it is more likely than not that they would enter the United Kingdom on presentation of a British citizen passport. Those British overseas territories citizens who are not also British citizens would be required to enter the UK under visa arrangements.
During the past five years, 2007 to 2011, there were only two British Overseas Territory citizens refused entry to the UK, both in 2007. Neither were British citizens.
The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of persons refused entry to the United Kingdom. Data on those refused entry are available in tables be.08 to be.08q from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Science, research and statistics web pages at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/science-research/research-statistics/migration/migration-statistics1/
In published tables, be.08 and be.08.q, ‘British Overseas Territory nationals’ is not a separate published nationality. We publish this nationality under a broad category of ‘British overseas citizens’.
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