Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 27 October 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 12 September 2005 to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Lynne Jones), Official Report, column 2414W, on visas, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the increased refusal rate between December 2004 and February 2005.
The refusal rate for family-visit visas rose from 46.8 per cent. in December 2004 to 59.8 per cent. in January 2005, then fell to 40.7 per cent. in February.
UKvisas has not conducted a formal assessment of the increase between December 2004 and January 2005.
However, refusal rates during December and January can fluctuate due to higher last minute demand and lower quality of applications over the holiday period.
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