The Home Office released some immigration statistics ending December 2022

In 2022 in total there were around 104.9 million passenger arrivals from overseas to the UK and 2,836,490 visas were issued. The most visas that were issued were tourist visas (49%), student visas (22%) and work related visas (15%). In total from Ukrainian nationals there were 248,107 applications.

Work related visas (such as skilled worker, senior or specialist worker visas) were in total 267,670 where skilled worker and skilled worker – health and care visas consisted of 54%. The highest number of work related visa applications came from Indian nationals.

Student visa applications were 485,758 where highest number of applications were from Indian nationals (139,539) and Chinese nationals (102,842).

In 2022 there were around 57,000 organisations and companies that registered for sponsor licences for work and study.

For indefinite leave to remain there were 133451 applications and 131,728 (99%) were approved while for British citizenship there were in total 190,741 applications and 46,661 applications were from EU nationals.