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Home Office immigration system statistics: user guide

A user guide to Home Office immigration system statistics.

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Published
23 May 2013
Last updated
28 November 2024 — See all updates

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User Guide to: Immigration system statistics

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This user guide to Home Office immigration system statistics is designed to be a useful reference guide with explanatory notes on the Home Office’s quarterly immigration system statistics releases.

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Published 23 May 2013
Last updated 28 November 2024 + show all updates

  1. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration system statistics, year ending September 2024'.

  2. Updated to accompany 'Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2024'.

  3. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration system statistics, year ending March 2024'.

  4. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration system statistics, year ending December 2023'.

  5. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration system statistics, year ending September 2023'.

  6. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2023'.

  7. Updated Immigration System Statistics data tables (Stp_01, Stp_02, Stp_D01) with data on passengers refused entry at the border up to March 2023. This data was not available at the time of the original publication (25 May 2023) due to the transition to a new caseworking system. The name of the datasets was changed from “Passengers initially stopped at the border” to “Passengers refused entry at the border” to better reflect what the data refers to.”

  8. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration system statistics, year ending March 2023'.

  9. Updated the name of the 'Innovator' visa to the new name of ‘Innovator Founder’ visa in the user guide.

  10. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration system statistics, year ending December 2022'.

  11. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending September 2022'.

  12. In the note under the revisions table (section 2.6), ‘(which only changed by 0.6% for the 2020 totals published in August 2021)’ needs to be changed to ‘(which only changed by 0.6% for the 2021 totals published in August 2022)’ and please could they add ‘(which only changed by 0.3% for the 2021 totals published in August 2022)’ after ‘or leaving detention’.

  13. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending June 2022'.

  14. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending March 2022'.

  15. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending December 2021'.

  16. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending September 2021'.

  17. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending June 2021'.

  18. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending March 2021'.

  19. Updated to ensure user guide refers to published statistics, is clear, succinct, accessible and easy to navigate.

  20. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending September 2020'.

  21. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending June 2020'.

  22. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending March 2020'.

  23. Updated to accompany the publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending December 2019'.

  24. Updated to accompany the publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending September 2019'.

  25. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, year ending June 2019'.

  26. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019'.

  27. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, year ending December 2018'.

  28. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, year ending September 2018'.

  29. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, year ending June 2018'.

  30. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, year ending March 2018'.

  31. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, October to December 2017'.

  32. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration Statistics, July to September 2017'.

  33. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, April to June 2017'.

  34. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, January to March 2017'.

  35. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, October to December 2016'.

  36. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, July to September 2016'.

  37. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, April to June 2016'.

  38. Updated 'Home Office immigration statistics: user guide'.

  39. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, October to December 2015'.

  40. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, July to September 2015'.

  41. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, April to June 2015'.

  42. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, January to March 2015'.

  43. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, October to December 2014'.

  44. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, July to September 2014'.

  45. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics April to June 2014'.

  46. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, January to March 2014'.

  47. 'Policy and legislative changes affecting migration to the UK: Timeline' removed from this publication and published separately. Updated to accompany publication of 'Immigration statistics, October to December 2013'.

  48. 'User Guide to Home Office Immigration Statistics' and 'Policy and legislative changes affecting migration to the UK: Timeline' updated.

  49. Updated to accompany 'Immigration statistics, April to June 2013'.

  50. User guide and timeline updated.

  51. First published.

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