Analysis of migrants use of the Graduate route

Product Description

This report looks at the journeys of foreign nationals who came to study in the UK, with a particular focus on those entering and leaving the Graduate route. It looks at who is entering the Graduate route, what they do after their Graduate leave expires, and if they extended into other leave. Additionally, it includes early insights on their earnings and employment by linking Home Office visa records to HMRC earnings data.

The report seeks to complement the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC’s) rapid review of the Graduate route published on 14 May 2024.

The report defines a migrant journey as a series of grants of leave to an individual where each grant is no more than 12 months after the expiry of the previous grant. As such, the number of new journeys in a given year within the report will not match the total number of overseas visa grants in the same period as published in the Immigration system statistics.