Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service - Statistics on Visas for Non-EEA Students - Quarter 3 2011
Visa Statistics for Quarter 3 2011
The key points are:
- From the beginning of July 2011 and the end of September 2011 a total of 2602 Visa applications were made by students.
- In total 2364 visa applications were granted and 238 were refused.
- This represents a 91% rate of approval vs a 9% rate of refusal.
- The 2602 study visa applications came from 74 countries.
- Of these, 55 countries have an approval rate of 75% or higher.
Visa Statistics for the first nine months of 2011
The Quarter 3 statistics also provide an opportunity to examine the trends in visa applications for the first nine months of the year.
The key points for the first nine months of 2011 are:
- For the first nine months of 2011 a total of 4594 Visa applications were made by students.
- In total 4040 visa applications were granted and 554 were refused.
- This represents an 88% rate of approval vs a 12% rate of refusal.
- The five nationalities with the highest number of applications which account for almost 70% of applications were:
- Saudi Arabia (1137 applications with 100% approval)
- People’s Republic of China (1121 applications with 92% approval)
- India (354 applications with 72% approval)
- UAE (258 applications with 100% approval)
- Kuwait (251 applications with 100% approval)
It should be noted that the approval/refusal rates for the first nine months of 2011 are broadly in line with the approval/refusal rate for 2010 which were 87%/13%.
Statistics
Quarter 1 2011 Student Visa Statistics (Size 31KB)
Quarter 2 2011 Student Visa Statistics (Size 172KB)
Quarter 3 2011 Student Visa Statistics (Size 15KB)
Student Review Unit
November, 2011