About this data
- Covers non-EU+ nationals only, who make up most of immigration to the UK (627,000 of 813,000 immigrants in 2025). Reasons are not available for British nationals or for EU nationals with settled status.
- Reason is based on the visa a person held when they arrived. Work and study include dependants (partners and children) travelling with the main applicant.
- Humanitarian routes are the Ukraine schemes, the British National (Overseas) route for Hong Kong residents, and resettlement schemes. Asylum covers people who claimed asylum in the UK.
- Data for the most recent periods is provisional.
This chart appears in Migration.