Migrant Journey: 2025 report

Product Description

This release explores how migrants’ leave status changes as they journey through the UK’s immigration system.

The report examines the number of migrants granted leave in the UK each year, and their status at the end of each subsequent year, until their journey ends. An individual’s leave status may be classified into one of the following broad categories:

Valid leave to remain - these individuals have valid leave to remain in the UK for a limited period. This may be in the category they started their journey in, or in a new category.

Indefinite leave to remain?- these individuals have been granted permission to remain in the UK indefinitely (for example being granted settlement or citizenship).

Expired?- these individuals’ leave has expired. They are required to leave the UK before their leave expiry date.

This report also includes analysis on the proportion of visas for which individuals are known to have arrived in the UK. Not all arrivals are recorded on the system (for example some people travelling via the Common Travel Area between the UK and Ireland may not be included in the data ). Data relating to individuals’, following the expiry of their leave, are not included in this release and work is ongoing to address data quality issues that currently prevent this analysis.