UK Home Office Publishes Latest Migration

The UK Home Office has published its latest migration transparency data. This release covers performance data for the period April to June 2026 across several key departments.

According to the source, the data is voluntarily compliant with the Code of Practice for Statistics. It includes information regularly requested by the Home Affairs Select Committee. The datasets cover Border Force activities, UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) performance, and Immigration Enforcement operations.

UK Visas and Immigration Performance

The UKVI data provides insights into several key areas for prospective students and sponsors. One table focuses on sponsorship applications for various visa routes.

This includes data on the number of new sponsor applications and registered organisations for skilled worker, temporary worker, and student routes. Performance against service standards for processing these applications is also detailed. The data shows the average processing time in days and the percentage of student sponsors with full 'student sponsor' status. Information on actions taken against sponsors, such as suspensions and revocations, is included.

Another table covers the volume of visa applications. It shows overseas and in-country applications received for each route. Performance against service standards for each route and the number of outstanding applications are listed. The data also includes the intake and pass rate for Life in the UK Tests. It reveals the cost of each decision for all migrant applications, both in-country and overseas.

Data on Asylum and Support

A separate data table provides quarterly and annual asylum-related performance figures. This includes the percentage of initial decisions made within six months. The size and age of outstanding initial decisions are listed as work in progress.

The data covers productivity rates, decision quality, and the cost of processing an asylum application. Also included are appeal representation rates, human rights applications, and cases related to 'no recourse to public funds' conditions. Data on fee waivers, citizenship deprivation orders, and the older live cases unit is published.

Support for asylum seekers is covered in another table, formerly called Resettlement, Asylum Support and Integration. This includes data on transfers of children under the national transfer scheme. Applications for support under section 4 and section 95 are detailed. The volume of travel document applications raised and despatched is also provided.

Other Departmental Data

The Border Force data table provides information on passenger clearance within published service standards. It includes seizures of drugs, firearms, offensive weapons, and items under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The amount of tax revenue protected through detecting alcohol and tobacco is shown. Carrier liaison data and the annual unit cost for processing passengers at the border are included.

Immigration Enforcement data relates to enforcement activity and performance. It covers the volume of foreign national offenders subject to deportation action who are living in the community. Family returns data is included. The average cost per day to hold an individual in immigration detention is listed. The volume of rule 35 reports in detention centres and the number of pregnant women in detention are published. Data on the use of force during removals and the volume and value of civil penalties issued is also provided.

Passports, Citizenship and Civil Registration data shows passport application intake volumes by month. The volume of passports issued within service standard and the number of applications in the system are included. Data on British Citizenship applications received and the percentage processed within service standards is published. The number of outstanding applications is listed as work in progress. Applicant experience survey results for HM Passport Office and citizenship are also published here.

A separate table provides data on civil registration activities. This includes births, adoptions, deaths, entries into the Gender Recognition Register, and marriage and civil partnership certificates. GRO applicant experience survey results are published here.

Recent Updates and Corrections

The source page notes several recent updates to the data. For the April to June 2026 period, multiple data files were updated. These include Border Force, Customer Service Operations, Immigration and Protection, Asylum Support, Sponsorship, Windrush Task Force, Visas and Status, Immigration Enforcement, Passports and Citizenship, and Civil Registration transparency data.

A new 'Windrush Compensation Scheme data tables: June 2026' was added. Corrections were also made to earlier data. An update note states, 'Updated table ADQ_1A - Asylum Decision Quality figures, which show the percentage breakdown of quality scores, were incomplete because the rounded values did not total 100%.' Unrounded figures are now included alongside the rounded figures.

Previous updates added Windrush Compensation Scheme data for May, April, March, February, and January 2026. Corrections were also applied to historical data series, including a fix for the back series for Q2 2025 in a Border Force table and the addition of missing data for Q3 and Q4 2025 in an Immigration and Protection table.

The Transaction Explorer data table provides information on controlled drugs and precursor chemicals. It covers domestic licences issued and compliance activities. A range of data on the volume of status checks for landlords, tenants, employers, and job seekers under right to rent and right to work schemes is included. The volume of view and prove status checks for migrants and checkers is also provided.