UK Immigration Statistics: Entry Clearance and Border Admissions Data

UK Home Office data on entry clearance visas and border admissions, including dependants and excluding visitors and transit passengers. The dataset replaces Volume 1 of the Immigration Statistics: before entry series and covers individuals arriving at UK ports and juxtaposed controls in France and Belgium. It was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Analyze visa application trends based on nationality and purpose of visit mentioned in the description
• Model border admission volumes based on data from UK ports and juxtaposed controls
• Study the composition of sponsored immigration flows based on the inclusion of dependants

Strengths

• Data is produced by the authoritative UK Home Office
• Dataset explicitly includes dependants, providing a more complete picture of immigration flows
• Covers arrivals at juxtaposed controls in France and Belgium, offering a specific geographic scope

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to UK government sources

Provenance

Source

Home Office

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:49.994257

Geography

United Kingdom, with data from juxtaposed controls in France and Belgium