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Immigration statistics, year ending December 2021

Quarterly and annual statistics relating to those: coming to the UK, extending their stay, gaining citizenship, applying for asylum, and being detained or removed, as well as immigration for work, study and family reasons, including new visa routes where these are operational.

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Details

Immigration statistics, year ending December 2021: data tables.

This release presents immigration statistics from Home Office administrative sources, covering the period up to the end of December 2021. It includes data on the topics of:

  • work
  • study
  • family
  • passenger arrivals and visitors
  • asylum
  • extensions of stay
  • settlement
  • citizenship
  • detention
  • returns

Further information

User Guide to Home Office Immigration Statistics
Policy and legislative changes affecting migration to the UK: timeline
Developments in migration statistics
Publishing detailed datasets in Immigration statistics

A range of key input and impact indicators are currently published by the Home Office on the Migration transparency data webpage.

If you have feedback or questions, our email address is MigrationStatsEnquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk.

Updates to this page

Published 24 February 2022
Last updated 3 March 2022 + show all updates
  1. A correction has been made to the “How many people do we grant asylum or protection to?” chapter. The number of individuals which were ‘subsequently admitted into the UK asylum process for substantive consideration of their asylum claim’ (see section 4. Inadmissibility) has been revised, and the number now published is higher. The number in the chapter now matches the associated data table (summary table Asy_09a), which did not require revising.

  2. First published.

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