High Value Residents by nationality (FOI)

Request

Please provide the nationalities (eg by passport) and numbers of those granted high value residency (HVR) for each year from 2015 to date (July 2020). The question seeks to establish immigration flows in respect of those granted high value residency status.

Response

Disclosure control has been applied to groups of individuals less than five to avoid the potential identification of individuals, further to Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

The total number of non-British applicants for the period in question is less than 25.

Article applied

Article 25 Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.