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Statistics on visa applications for people coming to the UK for work, study and family reasons.
Next update due: 10 September 2026 This release goes up to the end of July…
Survey findings on arrivals’ satisfaction, confidence in border security, Border Force behaviour and digital border services.
Executive summary The UK Border Arrivals Survey (BAS) for the year ending…
This report presents an evaluation of the changes to the appeals process introduced by the Immigration Act 2014.
Executive Summary Background Administrative Reviews were introduced as…
Data on Border Force, UK Visas and Immigration, Immigration Enforcement and Passports, Citizenship and Civil Registration performance.
The Migration Advisory Committee’s final recommendations on occupations for the Temporary Shortage List.
Quarterly statistics on people coming to the UK (including via illegal routes), extensions of stay, EUSS, citizenship, asylum, detentions, returns and stopping immigration crime.
Report on the family returns process by the Independent Family Returns Panel for 2024 to 2025.
This note produces an indicative estimate of the lifetime net fiscal cost of Article 8 in-country main applicant grants in 2025.
This inspection report contains two recommendations.
This inspection report contains three recommendations.
This inspection report contains five recommendations.
This inspection report contains seven recommendations.
This inspection report contains eight recommendations.
Report by the University of Greenwich to assess the effects of immigration on housing costs, what creates these effects and the implications for the UK.
Listing of the data tables included in 'Immigration system statistics'.
An independent evaluation of several initiatives introduced to improve the move on process, focusing on implementation, early impacts, and value for money.
This report covers reviews of selected Home Office country information on Afghanistan and Colombia that the IAGCI considered at its meeting on 18 December 2025.
A list of previous immigration detention summary tables.
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