High Value residents applications (FOI)

Request

Please can you tell me:

• how many high value resident (HVR) applications were successful in 2017 and so far in 2018? Can you break this information down by year

• of the successful applications, what was the nationality of each applicant

• of each of the successful applications, what was the jurisdiction each applicant came from, prior to living in Jersey?

Please note this data does not qualify for the "personal data" exemption in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005, which defines this as:

"Data that relate[s] to a living individual who can be identified –

(a) from those data; or

(b) from those data and other information that is in the possession of, or is likely to come into the possession of, the relevant data controller

Response

Successful Applications

2017 34

2018 <5

Nationality

British 27

French <5

Irish <5

Russian <5

German <5

Canadian <5

Austrian <5

Jurisdiction applicant came from

England 25

Switzerland <5

Scotland <5

Germany <5

Hong Kong <5

Singapore <5

Russia <5

USA <5

Barbados <5

Australia <5

Due to the small numbers cited, Article 25 (Personal information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to this request and as such, disclosure control has been applied to all numbers fewer than five (<5).

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 2005.

(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 2005; and

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