Visa Applications

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 16 June 2022

Thursday, 16 June 2022

Questions (437)

Holly Cairns

Question:

437. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice the number of visa applications that have been received which relied on paragraph 1.12 of the policy document on pon-EEA family reunification due to the fact that the sponsor did not meet the financial criteria; the number of those applications which were granted and refused, respectively, by country covering the period between 1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022, inclusive, in tabular form; the number of those applications which involved minors; and the number of those which were granted and refused, respectively. [31732/22]

Written answers

Minister for Justice

The information requested by the Deputy in relation to visa applications which rely on paragraph 1.12 of the Policy Document on Non-EEA Family Reunification, is not readily available to my Department.

However, to be of some assistance to the Deputy, the following table shows the number of join family applications, by nationality of applicant, granted and refused between 1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022.

Nationality	Granted on Appeal	Application Granted	Application Refused	Revoked	Total Granted	Total Refused
Afghanistan	24	252	311	0	276	287
Bangladesh	29	103	50	0	132	21
Cameroon	8	12	13	0	20	5
Congo Democratic Republic of	6	50	15	0	56	9
India	41	8123	111	5	8159	70
Iran	9	99	12	1	107	3
Iraq	7	35	13	0	42	6
Nigeria	54	241	169	1	294	115
Pakistan	155	834	233	1	988	78
People's Republic of China	32	261	25	3	290	-7
Philippines	53	472	53	0	525	0
South Africa	11	38	14	0	49	3
Thailand	12	48	13	0	60	1
Zimbabwe	21	478	33	0	499	12
Other*	134	2737	398	4	2867	264
Grand Total	596	13783	1463	15	14364	867

*Where the total number of people of any given country of origin is less than five, no further breakdown is provided to protect the identity of the people concerned.