Track UK's latest migration numbers - net migration, visas, asylum and small boats

UK nett migration has dropped to the lowest level, extracurricular of the Covid pandemic, since 2012.

How does that beryllium alongside different cardinal migration measures, including asylum applications, tiny vessel arrivals and visas granted?

Scroll down to find retired much astir the latest cardinal figures, and get answers to cardinal questions connected a scope of topics.

Produced by: Rob England, Libby Rogers, Jess Carr, Aidan McNamee, John Walton, Becky Dale, Allison Shultes, Chris Kay, Steven Connor and Scott Jarvis.

Graphics by: Jez Frazer, Zoe Bartholomew and Joy Roxas

Figures from authorities and different authoritative sources tin beryllium revised betwixt publications. This leafage shows information arsenic presented successful the latest disposable release.

Immigration, emigration and nett migration

*The nett migration fig for the UK volition not precisely adjacent migration minus emigration due to the fact that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes it arsenic a rounded number.

Net migration figures usage the internationally recognised explanation of a semipermanent migrant: "A idiosyncratic who moves to a state different than that of their accustomed residence for astatine slightest a year."

Visas for ineligible migration

The full fig of visa entries lone includes visas that person been granted. It does not see visitant visas oregon transit visas, wherever the UK is not the last destination.

Visa figures grounds erstwhile support was granted, not erstwhile oregon whether idiosyncratic arrived successful the UK.

If a idiosyncratic was granted much than 1 visa wrong the twelvemonth shown, each visa is counted separately.

Work visas notation to caller individuals granted permission, oregon extensions of existing permission. This includes categories specified arsenic seasonal work, wellness and care, home idiosyncratic and younker mobility visas.

Study visas see each individuals sponsored by approved UK acquisition providers, arsenic good arsenic those connected short-term survey visas.

Family visas let idiosyncratic to travel to oregon stay successful the UK to unrecorded with adjacent household members already here. This includes joining a spouse, partner, kid oregon parent, oregon coming to attraction for a relative.

The "Other" class includes visas extracurricular work, survey and household routes. This covers humanitarian schemes specified arsenic the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme and the British National (Overseas) route. It besides includes household permits for radical from European Union oregon European Economic Area countries.

Asylum applications and accommodation

Home Office figures for asylum seekers successful hotels are published nether the class "contingency accommodation - hotel".

The fig of radical successful each different forms of accommodation includes non-hotel contingency accommodation, arsenic good arsenic initial, dispersal and "other" accommodation.

To amusement however evenly accommodation is distributed, a standard compares each section authority's stock of radical successful that benignant of accommodation with the UK-wide mean for areas utilizing the aforesaid accommodation type:

Backlog figures for radical waiting for an archetypal asylum determination see some main applicants and dependants.

Open appeals against refused asylum applications notation to individuals. Figures connected appeals are published each 3 months by the Ministry of Justice, astatine a antithetic clip from different authorities asylum statistics. It besides includes a tiny fig of appeals against revocation of protection.

Small vessel crossings and different irregular arrivals

Entering the UK without support is an offence nether migration law, but asylum seekers are mostly not prosecuted if they assertion asylum connected arrival. In immoderate cases, radical person been prosecuted alongside different offences, specified arsenic radical smuggling oregon re-entering aft deportation.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) collects figures connected radical who person died oregon gone missing portion crossing from mainland Europe to the UK. These reports are based connected accusation from French and UK officials (such arsenic constabulary oregon coastguard) and media sources. The IOM considers them an undercount due to the fact that determination are nary authoritative statistics.

The figures whitethorn see radical who died successful the Channel itself, arsenic good arsenic those who died portion travelling to a crossing point.

Data connected modern slavery includes last decisions only. Modern slavery covers quality trafficking, slavery, servitude and forced labour.

Figures for different entries without support harvester each recorded irregular arrivals that were not by tiny boat. This includes inadequately documented aerial arrivals, recorded detections astatine UK ports, and different recorded detections wrong the UK.

People who are denied introduction astatine the borderline and past permission the UK are not included successful the returns figures connected this page.

Returns involving the authorities are grouped into 3 categories. Enforced returns (which see deportations) are cases wherever the Home Office requires idiosyncratic to permission and arranges their removal, usually due to the fact that they person nary ineligible close to stay oregon pursuing a transgression conviction.

Assisted voluntary returns are erstwhile idiosyncratic agrees to permission the UK and receives authorities support, specified arsenic assistance with question documents, flights oregon reintegration assistance.

Controlled voluntary returns are erstwhile idiosyncratic leaves the UK voluntarily without being forcibly removed, but their departure is formally recorded by the Home Office.

Independent returns are referred to by the authorities arsenic "other verified returns," and notation to individuals who person near the UK without

People returned aft a transgression condemnation see non-British citizens convicted successful the UK of immoderate transgression offence, oregon convicted overseas of a superior transgression offence.

UK migration compared with different countries

Sea accomplishment figures are taken from the UNHCR European oversea arrivals dashboard and combined with UK Home Office tiny vessel data.

Asylum application, migration and emigration figures for European countries are the latest disposable information from Eurostat for: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Norway, Switzerland and Croatia.

UK colonisation figures are from ONS, National Records of Scotland and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency 2024 mid-year estimates. European colonisation figures are from Eurostat arsenic of 1 January 2024.

To guarantee comparability with the UK, European countries with populations nether 1 cardinal are excluded from per-capita comparisons of nett migration and asylum applications.

For nett migration comparisons, lone countries that see asylum seekers oregon refugees successful their migration figures are included.

These are: Austria, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland.

Portugal was besides excluded arsenic it did not person nett migration information disposable for 2024, it volition beryllium re-included successful aboriginal updates.