🚨 BREAKING: The Home Office has released immigration statistics for 2025
Overall Arrivals
- 136.6 million arrivals to the UK in 2025
- 57% were British nationals
- 809,000 non-visit visas issued (work, study, family, humanitarian)
Asylum
- 101,000 asylum claims in 2025 - down 4%
- 135,000 initial decisions made, up 56%, highest since records began in 2002
- Grant rate: 42%, down from 47%
- 64,000 awaiting a decision, down 48% in a year, 63% below the 2023 peak
- 31,000 asylum seekers in hotel accommodation, down 19%
Illegal Entry
- 46,000 detected illegal arrivals in 2025
- 41,000 arrived via small boats, up 13% on last year, 9% below 2022 peak
- Top nationalities: Eritrean, Afghan, Iranian, Sudanese, Somali
Enforcement
- 23,000 entered immigration detention, up 11%
- 9,900 enforced returns, up 21%
- 28,000 voluntary returns, up 5%
- 5,600 foreign national offender returns, up 11%
Work Visas
- 168,000 work visas granted - down 19% on last year
- 50% down from the 2023 peak
- Health & Care visas -13,000 issued, down 91% from peak
- Other skilled worker visas: 48,000, down 36%
Study Visas
- 407,000 student visas granted - down 3% on last year
- 35% below the 2023 peak
- Student dependant visas: 20,000, down 10%
Family Visas
- 67,000 family visas granted - down 22%
- Partner visas: 41,000, down 27%
- Refugee Family Reunion visas: 19,000, down 2% (route temporarily paused from Sept 2025)
Settlement and Citizenship
- 146,000 settlement grants, down 10%
- 355,000 EU Settlement Scheme grants, up 2%
- 236,000 British citizenship grants, down 13%, second highest annual total since 2005
Another migrant rape. More British lives ruined. More unforgivable pain inflicted on the innocent.
I am so very sick of it. Does our mass deportation petition make any difference? Who knows, probably not. But I'm willing to try.
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THIS!!!
“Stop your green scam!! You are lying to the people”. While you are banning normal cars with combustion engines for ordinary citizens of the European Union and making their lives more expensive…. places like India or Malaysia are filing the oceans with plastic waste
@RupertLowe10 100% all these taxes are to pay for these stupid decisions that make no sense and are totally unfair. Reduce pension age to 60 to 65 what it should permanently.
Sort out inheritance tax nonesense
Sort out CGT nonesense
Help entrepeneurs, they will create jobs.