Research and statistics

Results from wave 2 of a Home Office commissioned evaluation exploring experiences of the Global Talent visa process.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Migration research and analysis
• Organisation: Home Office
• Updated: 28 March 2024

• Global Talent visa evaluation: Wave 2 report

  Ipsos UK Authors: Ashley Ames, Susan Jensen, Kirsty Macleod, Nazifa Uddin…

Examines the wage and occupation outcomes for cohorts of immigrants who arrived in the UK since 2002.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Migration Advisory Committee
• Updated: 27 March 2024

• Immigration downgrading: new evidence from UK panel data (accessible)

  Brian Bell, King’s Business School & Centre for Economic Performance,…

• Summary findings: immigrant downgrading: new evidence from UK panel data

  This paper synthesises the immigrant downgrading analysis we published in…

The inspection focused on the efficiency and effectiveness of Border Force’s operational response to general aviation (GA) flights at London City Airport (LCY).

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 26 March 2024

This inspection adopted a broad perspective on the interaction between the UK’s immigration system and the social care sector.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 26 March 2024

Detailed statistics on applications made to the EUSS from 28 August 2018 to 31 December 2023, and applications concluded during the same time period.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Migration statistics
• Organisation: Home Office
• Updated: 7 March 2024

This inspection examined the availability and quality of the training, equipment, and guidance provided to Border Force officers in relation to the identification, handling, and storage of firearms.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

This inspection was a pilot of a proposed new methodology for short-notice, light-touch observational inspections of some of the Home Office’s busy operational settings.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

This inspection sought to examine the effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency of the Home Office’s processing of applications to Afghan resettlement schemes.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

This inspection examined the management of deprivation of citizenship cases by the Home Office’s Status Review Unit (SRU), focusing on the referral and progressing of cases, quality assurance, training, and guidance.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

This thematic report covers reviews of country information on statelessness considered by the IAGCI at its February 2023 meeting.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

This report covers reviews of country information on Albania and Pakistan that were considered by the IAGCI at its October 2023 meeting.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

In December 2022, lead officials from the Northern Ireland Executive Office (TEO) and the Department of Health for Northern Ireland (DoHNI) wrote to the Home Office asking for an independent safeguarding review of hotels use…

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

This inspection examined Border Force’s capability in detecting prohibited and restricted items in fast parcels.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

This reinspection sought to examine the effectiveness of ePassport gates at three ports of entry through onsite observations, and in that context, assess progress against recommendations made in the ICIBI’s report ‘An inspec…

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

This re-inspection of the use of hotels for housing unaccompanied asylum-seeking (UAS) children had a particular focus on the implementation of the recommendations from the previous 2022 ICIBI inspection.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

This inspection examined the Home Office’s illegal working enforcement activity.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

This inspection examined asylum decision making since the implementation of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
• Updated: 29 February 2024

Counts of Ukrainian nationals in employment by age, gender and region in UK, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: DLUHC: ad hoc analyses and statistics
• Organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 29 February 2024

Visa data by age and sex in separate tables for UK, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: DLUHC: ad hoc analyses and statistics
• Organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 29 February 2024

Local authority data for individuals on the Homes for Ukraine scheme, those under the Afghan resettlement Programme, and asylum seekers receiving support.

• Document type: Statistical data set
• Organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 29 February 2024