Immigration Statistics Quarter 3, July to September 2013
Categories: Articles:Asylum & Refugees |
Published: 28/11/2013 |
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Detention Q3: At the 30th September, 4,094 people were detained under immigration laws, 3,115 in Immigration Removal Centres and 979 persons detained in prisons. In the third quarter of 2013, 65 children entered detention. Of the 63 children leaving detention in the third quarter of 2013, 28 were removed from the UK and the remaining 35 were granted temporary admission or release.
Removals Q3: 3,010 enforced removals, 3,832 refused entry and removed, 6,744 voluntary departures
Asylum:
There were 23,765 asylum applications in the year ending September 2013, a rise of 2,875 (+14%) compared with the previous 12 months.
Compared with the previous 12 months the number of initial decisions on asylum applications has increased by 14% (+2,261) to 18,830 in the year ending September 2013. Of these, 37% (6,974) were grants of asylum, a form of temporary protection or other type of grant.
At the end of September 2013, 15,438 of the applications received since April 2006 from main applicants were pending a decision (initial decision, appeal or further review). This was 19% more than at the end September 2012.
The HM Courts and Tribunals Service received 9,028 asylum appeals from main applicants in the year ending September 2013, a rise of 8% compared with the previous 12 months.
Family
There was a fall of 20% for family-related visas issued (down to 33,747), while grants of permission to stay permanently increased by 26% (to 59,098). A rise of 138% in family-related extensions of stay (to 36,752) was in large part due to 14,150 extra extensions recorded under the new Family life (10 year) route that would previously have been recorded as discretionary leave.
Home Office, Published 28 November 2013
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