Asylum: Overseas Students
Commons · Question 28021 · Tabled 8 Sep 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 11 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Neil O'Brien
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who claimed asylum in the UK in each of the last five years had previously held a Student visa, by sponsoring institution.
Answer
Answered by Anna Turley, 11 Sep 2026
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.Data on the number of people claiming asylum by route prior to claim is published in table Asy_D01a of the ‘Asylum claims and initial decisions datasets’. Th...