About this data

Source: Home Office, Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026 (Vis_D02)

• Counts visas issued, not people arriving: some people never travel, some receive more than one visa, and some visas are for stays shorter than a year. So these numbers are higher than ONS estimates of long-term immigration.
• Excludes visas granted to people already in the UK (extensions and switches).
• “Other” includes EU Settlement Scheme family permits, the British National (Overseas) route, the Ukraine schemes and other routes.
• Before 2008, some dependants were not separately identified.

This chart appears in Migration.