FOI reference: FOI-2026-3667
You asked
Can you please provide me with up-to-date figures, or as up to date as you have, for legal immigration into the UK since 2020?
We said
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
Our most up-to-date figures on legal immigration into the UK can be found in our Long-term international immigration, emigration and net migration flows, provisional dataset, from year ending June 2021 to year ending December 2025.
The first edition in this set, "Year ending June 2021" includes data from Quarter 2 (April to June) of 2020.
Please note the following:
we estimate long-term international migration (people moving in and out of the country for 12 months or more); anyone staying or leaving for less time than that would not be included in our estimates
technically, our asylum estimate can include people that did not arrive through legal routes, but then legally claimed asylum once arriving in the UK (at which point they become legal)
If you have any further queries relating to this, please email Pop.info@ons.gov.uk