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Home Office · Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019: entry clearance visa tables volume 1 (vi_01 to vi_05_q)

Family visas granted, 2005 to 2013

2013 Final

33,162visas

Family visas granted, 2005 to 2013 were 33,162 visas in 2013, down 17.4% (6,987) from 40,149 in 2012.

▼ 17.4% · −6,987 against 2012 (year on year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. 2013
  3. published 24 May 2019
  4. Table vi_04
  5. row “Family”
  6. column “2013”
  7. cell value 33162

2005 to 2013

Family visas granted, 2005 to 2013: 2005 to 2013LabourLabourCoalitionCoalition020k40k60k20062008201020122005: 66,324 visas · published 24 May 20192006: 70,119 visas · published 24 May 20192007: 64,389 visas · published 24 May 20192008: 53,544 visas · published 24 May 20192009: 49,173 visas · published 24 May 20192010: 52,309 visas · published 24 May 20192011: 44,940 visas · published 24 May 20192012: 40,149 visas · published 24 May 20192013: 33,162 visas · published 24 May 2019
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What this measures

The number of entry clearance (out-of-country) visas granted in the Family category (partners, children and other family members of British citizens and settled people) in a calendar year, from the Home Office's old-format table vi_04.

What this doesn’t measure

Dependants joining or accompanying work, study or other migrants (a separate category in vi_04), EEA family permits, or the years from 2014 in the modern Vis_01 table.

Important caveat

Entry clearance visas granted by category from the Home Office's old-format table vi_04 (last published May 2019), covering main applicants and dependants together. Categories were mapped by the Home Office from the pre-Points-Based-System endorsements to the Work, Study and Family groupings. Study includes short-term study. The modern Vis_01 table starts in 2014 and is derived from a different outcomes dataset; its 2014 figures differ from vi_04 by a handful of visas, so the two series are shown separately with a marked break.

When the way this was measured changed

A series can move because the thing being measured changed, or because the way of measuring it changed. Each change below is marked on the chart, and says what the figures meant on either side of it.

January 2014 · methodology change

Before
Visa grants from the vi_04 tables under the older route groupings.
After
Visa grants derived from the Vis_D02 outcomes dataset under the current route groupings.

The modern series (Vis_01, from 2014) is derived from the Vis_D02 outcomes dataset with the current route groupings; its 2014 family visa figure (34,852) differs from vi_04 (34,876) by 24 visas.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Home Office
Publication
Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019: entry clearance visa tables volume 1 (vi_01 to vi_05_q)
Release
Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019: entry clearance visas volume 1, published 24 May 2019
Source file
entry-visas1-mar-2019-tables.ods
File SHA-256
9647a2c2183729bda65852db4a967c0c6d46281162f281aec3fcd1a20c9e16bd
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
vi_04
Table
Table vi_04
Row
Family
Column
2013
Cell value
33162
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
visas
API
/api/metrics/family_visas_2005_2013 · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Coalition 2010–201549,173200933,1622013↓ 32.6%

Full comparison with chart

Release
Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019: entry clearance visas volume 1 · publication page
Last updated
24 May 2019
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)