Nick Gibb
Chair, Draft Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many graduates from UK universities have been issued Tier 5 (Government Authorised Exchange) visas since 6 April 2012.
Mark Harper
The Minister for Immigration
holding answer
The published statistics on out of country visas to the United Kingdom issued and in country extensions of stay granted to main applicants in the Tier 5 (Government Authorised Exchange) category are provided in the following table:
| Out of country visas to the United Kingdom issued and in-country extensions of stay granted: Tier 5 (Government Authorised Exchange) | ||
| Quarter | Out of country visas issued | In-country grants of extensions |
| 2012 Q3 | 1,295 | 68 |
| 2012 Q4 | 688 | 144 |
| 2013 Q1 | 787 | 40 |
| 2013 Q2 | 1,926 | 79 |
| Notes: 1. Excludes dependants. 2. Data are provisional. 3. Entry clearance visas issued and grants of an extension of stay should not be summed. Individuals could be counted in both entry clearance visas issued and grants of an extension of stay if the issue and grant occurs within the same year. Source: Immigration Statistics, April to June 2013, table be_01_q and table ex_01_q | ||
It is not possible to determine how many of these main applicants graduated from UK universities without examination of individual case records at disproportionate cost.
Information published in the short statistical article ‘Extensions of stay by previous category’ show that in 2012 there were 129 grants of an extension to main applicants in Tier 5 (Government Authorised Exchange) whose previous category was study.
The latest Home Office immigration statistics on entry clearance visas and extensions of stay are published in the release Immigration Statistics April to June to 2013, which is available from the Library of the House and on the Department's website at:
A copy of the short statistical article ‘Extensions of stay by previous category’ is available from the Library of the House and at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/extensions-of-stay-by-previous-category
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