Who actually comes to Britain, and what happens next.
Who actually comes to Britain, on what visa, and what happens next, the record inflows, the fall since, and the loudest claims checked.
30 figures, each with its official source.
Provisional ONS estimate; down from a revised 331,000 the year before.
Context: the 2025 figure is roughly a fifth of the peak.
Provisional. Down 20% on the prior year.
Net = 813,000 − 642,000 = 171,000.
Study 412,825 + work 252,775 + family 62,470 + other. Grants, not applications.
−17% year-on-year; 59% below the 2023 peak.
Largest single category; top nationalities India and China.
−17% year-on-year; includes ~17,000 refugee family reunion.
Main applicants; down ~9% year-on-year.
Down 12% year-on-year. 42% had arrived by small boat.
Share of initial decisions granting protection/leave (down from 49% a year earlier).
Down 55% year-on-year, the lowest since Sep 2019.
75% in dispersal housing, 21% in hotels, 4% subsistence-only.
Pakistan · Eritrea · Iran · Afghanistan · Bangladesh Top six (adding Sudan) ≈ 46% of claimants.
Across all resettlement schemes (UKRS, Afghan, etc.). Excludes Ukraine/BN(O) bespoke routes.
Down ~11% year-on-year. Distinct from EUSS settled status.
Largest component Skilled Worker (~53,000).
Down >50% year-on-year.
Separate from ILR. Mostly pre-settled holders converting to settled.
Rounded estimate of current settled-status holders (~5.8m hold some EUSS status).
Down 12% year-on-year but the second highest annual total since 2005.
Enforced + voluntary from within the UK. Excludes port refusals (counted separately).
+13% year-on-year.
≈ three-quarters of all returns.
+13% year-on-year.
Reported separately from the 39,007 total.
Cumulative 8,427 returned since 2018.
Point-in-time snapshot; ~23,000 people entered detention over the year.