Government of Jersey

'Tell us you are leaving the island’ online form (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 14 June 2022.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

Could you please provide a monthly breakdown of how many people have completed the 'Leaving Jersey' form or any previous form with the same purpose over the past 10 years?

Leaving the Island for more than 3 months (gov.je)

Response

There have been at least two versions of the 'Tell us you are leaving the island' online form since December 2017. There has been no information or equivalent online form located prior to this.

The below table shows the total number of submissions per month and year.

Year Submitted	Month Submitted	Count of Submissions
2017	December	8
2018	January	122
2018	February	116
2018	March	143
2018	April	127
2018	May	114
2018	June	119
2018	July	279
2018	August	219
2018	September	217
2018	October	223
2018	November	200
2018	December	153
2019	January	94
2019	January	49
2019	February	133
2019	March	130
2019	April	102
2019	May	137
2019	June	135
2019	July	236
2019	August	287
2019	September	218
2019	October	219
2019	November	205
2019	December	162
2020	January	151
2020	February	124
2020	March	120
2020	April	51
2020	May	65
2020	June	74
2020	July	157
2020	August	137
2020	September	123
2020	October	114
2020	November	95
2020	December	115
2021	January	81
2021	February	77
2021	March	68
2021	April	74
2021	May	95
2021	June	117
2021	July	154
2021	August	161
2021	September	136
2021	October	128
2021	November	147
2021	December	139
2022	January	157
2022	February	108
2022	March	214

Government may be informed that an individual has left the island via several channels, not just this specific online form. For example, online via YOTI and the 'update your contact details process'; if a physical letter is sent and returned to the Department; or by an employer telling us as part of their Social Security Contributions schedule that their employee has left the island.

There is no single channel by which government comprehensively collects information on people leaving the island, therefore it is not possible to give definitive total numbers of all customers who have told us they are leaving or have left the island.