Overview

• Home Office data show 834,977 entry visas in the year to June 2025, down 32% from 1.23 million, with work visas falling 48% to 286,071.
• Health and care pathways have contracted sharply after rule changes, with health and care visas for workers and families down to 61,901 from 267,348 and student dependants down 81% to 17,804.
• Study routes declined less steeply, with 435,891 study visas down 18% year on year and around 414,000 sponsored study permits keeping volumes above 2019 levels.
• Asylum pressures increased, with 111,000 claims marking a record high and a High Court order requiring migrants to be moved from the Bell Hotel by 12 September.
• Enforcement and long‑term churn shifted, with Indian nationals in detention roughly doubling to 2,715 and 163,000 people granted settlement, over a third via work routes.